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Ten Skies

Ten Skies · Ten Skies

James Benning

2004, US, 102', M12


Ideas to Postpone the End of the World 2021

25 Nov 2021 · TM Rivoli, Pequeno Auditório · 18H30


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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."