natural history | Ruhr

Since the late 1970s, James Benning's films have been a regular fixture at festivals in Germany and Austria, while frequent television broadcasts have helped expose his work to a larger audience here than perhaps even at home. This 2-disc set presents the products of this intercontinental relationship: Ruhr, Benning's first foray into digital filmmaking, is a modern-day "city symphony" dedicated to Germany's industrial Ruhr district; natural history, is an audiovisual portrait commissioned by Vienna's Natural History Museum. Reinhard Wulf's feature-length documentary James Benning: Circling the Image, produced for German television, rounds off the set. 
 

Edition Filmmuseum 92
1st edition: 2014
Edited by: Austrian Film Museum
DVD 1: Ruhr (2009, James Benning) 122 min | Fire & Rain: Viennale Trailer 2009 (2009, James Benning) 1 min
DVD 2: natural history (2014, James Benning) 77 min | James Benning: Circling the Image (2003, Reinhard Wulf) 84 min

Language: No dialogue, English

Subtitles: German 
All Regions, 16:9/4:3 PAL

28 page bilingual booklet (in English and in German) with contributions by James Benning, Werner Dütsch, Christian Köberl, Werner Ružička and Reinhard Wulf

 
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