Ten Skies is considered by many to be the masterpiece of James Benning, the most radically structuralist of American underground directors. Filmed in 16mm, the film consists - exactly - of ten fixed shots of ten minutes each, showing, as the title announces, ten different skies. At the time of the premiere, almost two decades ago, the director said, "my films about landscape are now anti-war works, they are the antithesis of war, they are portraits of the beauty we are destroying."