A very nice documentary! In a deep well, which makes a kind of meditative work of the most significant. "Ruhr" is 7-level fixed sequences, and therefore 7 ideas for staging. It's little, but the relevance of framing of James Benning is such that it takes him no more to give to see a vivid picture even if the region fragmented German namesake. On the aesthetic point of view, "Ruhr" is a model of control of the plan: each element can be moved with a grace unparalleled, whether a falling leaf, smoke escaping from the chimney of a factory of men praying at the mosque, the ballet of machine tools ... The man is everywhere in this feature, not by a direct physical presence but by its production, his work, traces his life: each plane is crossed by one or more elements of the industrial age that is ours, and we can observe with curiosity interaction relatively near or far from the man and his environment (as often between man and nature is the tool). As the smoke from the factory in the background clouds, how the wind sweeps the plane trees, as the sound of human activity echoes in the vastness of the sky. It is striking that the only time we find ourselves really close to people just when they were praying in one clip so that more is in the middle of the film so that the man between "real" little by little in the feature film soon to vanish, in an echo back through the chimney of the factory and the night falls. Both the image than the sound, "Ruhr" is a film of great subtlety, driven by the ability to play Benning with the framework and time. In contrast the poetry of "Ruhr" is of course relative: it's contemplative film par excellence, the art of James Benning is precisely the erasure of the artist, besides Benning is perhaps more a filmmaker photographer (if such a statement is meaningful). I'm more reserved about the aspect of "art" of this film: it certainly makes us ponder the seventh art and man, and it is not the least of its merits, but I can 't stop to wonder how far can we go in the record of a pure and simple "objective" reality ... Anyway the meaning attached to Benning its framing and its installation, the choices he makes, the subjectivity of his eyes dissolve the slightest doubt about his contribution and his creation, but we can discuss its scope. And fortunately, he (m ') is difficult or impossible to decide! [2 / 4]
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