The United States of America

2022
1h 38m

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A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming... Read allA crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming.A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming.

Director
- James Benning
Writer
- James Benning

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Director
- James Benning
Writer
- James Benning

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 nominations total

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Comedy James Benning Film?

Practically here because of James Benning's Sight and Sound List. In that list, he infamously just voted his films.

This film was the first film of his I found available.

In here, the presents a "view" of the 51 states + PR and DC, presented in mostly diegetic sounds of the area. In the end, it claps back and shows that it was actually just from California representing the whole of the states.

This a mockery of the Idealization of American Landscape in movies. He leads you in this spaces and then proceeds to crash it.

It does not work for me. I had since watched a bunch of his films AND this is by far his artsier work with a comedic bent, if your strong enough to wait for the .

I think people should watch Landscape Suicide first. It really made me rethink his work AND understood this long shots of nature works.