

ACMI presents
El Valley Centro
James Benning
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U.S.A.
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1999
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Unclassified (All Ages)
Tickets
| Full | $18 |
|---|---|
| Concession | $14 |
| Member | $12 |
When
Part one of James Benning's California Trilogy, El Valley Centro is "a landmark in turn of the century American cinema" (Time Out).
Each film of the California Trilogy – El Valley Centro (1999), Los (2000), and Sogobi (2001) – contains 35 shots, each exactly two and a half minutes long, to "map the state, visualising its beauty while examining the politics of water and of ethnicity" (Artforum).
Format: 16mm
Source: Arsenal
Runtime: 87 minutes
Multi-session passes
3-session passes
Full $45
Concession $39
ACMI Member $33

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