RR

Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development. RR comes three decades after Benning and Bette Gordon made The United States of America (1975), a cinematic journey along the country’s interstates that is keenly aware “of superhighways and railroad tracks as American public symbols.” A political essay responding to the economic histories of trains as instruments in a culture of hyper-consumption, RR articulates its concern most explicitly when Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech is heard as a mile long coal train passes through eastern Wyoming. Benning spent two and a half years collecting two hundred and sixteen shots of trains, forty-three of which appear in RR . The locomotives' varying colors, speeds, vectors, and reverberations are charged with visual thrills, romance and a nostalgia heightened by Benning's declaration that this will be his last work in 16mm film.

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RR är en dokumentärfilm från 2007, regisserad av James Benning.

Med en speltid på 1 timmar och 55 minuter är RR en produktion från Germany. Originalspråket är engelska. Hos tittarna har filmen ett snittbetyg på 7.0 av 10 baserat på 35 röster. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa RR i Sverige.