RR (film)

RR (film)

Infobox Film
name = RR


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director = James Benning
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starring = the train
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released = 2008
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country = USA
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"RR" (aka "Railroad") is a 2008 film by American, James Benning. Shot in 16mm, as most of Benning's films are, "RR" is another in Benning's series of American experimental landscape films; this one focusing on trains and their surrounding environs. In "Railroad", Benning explores themes of American consumerism and overconsumption in what Benning calls a "collaboration" with the trains themselves. [http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=6312&catid=110&volume_id=317&issue_id=377&volume_num=42&issue_num=32 "The end of the line: Trainspotting America with James Benning's RR" SF Bay Guardian, by Mark Peranson, May 7, 2008] ]

The film is an exercise in minimalist restraint. Basically it is a series of static shots of trains. There's an empty frame, the train enters, then it passes and leaves. In other words, it is "porno" for rail fans and trainspotters (often referred to as "foamers," implying they foam at the mouth at the mere sight of a train). [http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/222432/folkston_a_hotbed_for_train_fanatics/index.html "Folkston a Hotbed for Train Fanatics", August 28 2005, by Paul Newberry, Associated Press] ] The obsessive gaze of Benning's fixed static frame causes the viewer to wait and watch, obsessing like train fanatic Benning does, on the imagery of the locomotive and the exploration of the random colors of its cars, the machinery and the various American lanscapes the trains are surrounded by. [http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=6312&catid=110&volume_id=317&issue_id=377&volume_num=42&issue_num=32 "The end of the line: Trainspotting America with James Benning's RR" SF Bay Guardian, by Mark Peranson, May 7, 2008] ]

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External Links

* [http://newfilmkritik.de/archiv/2008-02/rr-location-list/ RR location list (new filmkritik)]


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