Milwaukee/Duisburg, 2010. © the artist
Milwaukee/Duisburg, 2010. © the artist
Milwaukee/Duisburg, 2010. © the artist
Benning is one of the most important figures in American avant-garde film. In 1971 he made Time and a Half including a 14-second shot of a working class man leaving a Milwaukee factory: in 2010 he slowed it down 133 times stretching the 14 seconds to 31 minutes. In 2009 he filmed trains at the HKL Steelworks in Duisburg collecting slag and pig iron, the shot is 31 minutes in real time. This installation brings together both of these former industrial zones.
Curated by AV Festival. UK Premiere.
James Benning exhibits his installation One Way Boogie Woogie at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland from 1 March – 9 June. The Festival also presents the UK premiere of his new feature length film Nightfall at Tyneside Cinema on Sat 3 March.
FREE
Preview: Thu 1 March 6-9pm
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March
Tue – Sun 10am–4pm
Middlesbrough Railway Station
Zetland Road
Middlesbrough TS1 1EG
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James Benning: Nightfall
Sat 3 March
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Sun 4 March
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Thu 8 – Sun 11 March
