Irrigation channels and sprinklers on an empty farm field. Still from El Valley Centro (1999)
Irrigation channels and sprinklers on an empty farm field. Still from El Valley Centro (1999)
El Valley Centro (1999)

ACMI presents

El Valley Centro

James Benning | U.S.A. | 1999 | Unclassified (All Ages)
Film

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Tickets

Full

$18

Concession

$14

Member

$12

When

Sun 27 Jun 2021

3pm

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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 min

Event duration

87 mins

Rating

Unclassified (All Ages)

Where

Cinema 2, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

How to get there

Five Films by James Benning

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Concession $39
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Water spout in dam - still from Sogobi (2002)

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