“More real than reality”: an interview with James Benning

Authors

  • José Bértolo Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, 1600-214, Lisboa
  • Susana Nascimento Duarte Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, ESAD.CR (Escola Superior de Artes e Design), 2500-321 Caldas da Rainha /Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, IFILNOVA,1069-061 Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v4n1.300

Keywords:

James Benning, Landscape Cinema

Abstract

James Benning was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Space and Cinema held at the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities between the 28th and the 30th of November 2016. On the morning of the 29th, instead of delivering the protocol one-hour lecture, he presented his latest film, time after time – a montage of shots taken from earlier films, which the director had finished the week before –, in a world premiere at the Portuguese Cinematheque. We joined him in the afternoon for the conversation that follows, which took place on a small room at the University, with a view to the empty playground in a nearby kindergarten.

Author Biographies

José Bértolo, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, 1600-214, Lisboa

José Bértolo is a PhD student in the International FCT PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (U. Lisbon), with a project on Jean Epstein, Jean Painlevé and Jean Cocteau. He is a member of the Centre for Comparative Studies (U. Lisbon), and he published Imagens em Fuga: os fantasmas de François Truffaut (Documenta, 2016).

Susana Nascimento Duarte, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, ESAD.CR (Escola Superior de Artes e Design), 2500-321 Caldas da Rainha /Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, IFILNOVA,1069-061 Lisboa

Susana Duarte is an Associate Professor at ESAD-CR/IPL and a researcher of Nova Institute of Philosophy. She holds a PhD in Cinema and Television (FCSH/New University of Lisbon). Her PhD thesis is entitled The figural in contemporary film. She is the Interviews' Editor of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.

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Published

2016-12-22

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017): Landscape and cinema

Section

Interviews