Landscape Suicide

Landscape Suicide is a 1987 American crime and drama film directed and produced by James Benning.[4] The film starring Rhonda Bell and Elion Sucher in the lead roles.[5]

Landscape Suicide
Directed byJames Benning[1]
Produced byJames Benning
Written byJames Benning[2]
CinematographyJames Benning
Release date
September 17, 1987 (1987-09-17)
Running time
95 min.
CountryUSA[3]
LanguageEnglish

Background

Prior to the release of Landscape Suicide, Benning had already built a reputation for his exceedingly long, stationary camera shots of landscapes and industrial scenes. Landscape Suicide merged the mesmerizing monotony of these structuralist film approaches with the fact-finding ethos of documentary filmmaking.[6]

Plot

The film recounts, and parallels, two murders that took place thirty years apart. The Murder of Kirsten Costas, who was stabbed by her high school friend Bernadette Protti in Northern California in early 1984. The second half is devoted to the infamous homicides and taxidermies committed by Ed Gein in Northern Wisconsin three decades prior.

Reception

In the words of Chicago Tribune film critic Dave Kehr, "It`s part of Benning`s project in Landscape Suicide to reclaim these deaths from the realm of popular fiction and place them again in a real world. His method is, alternatively, both to refuse to look (the killings, made familiar and even banal by their endless cinematic representation, are not depicted) and to look harder than anyone else."[7] By focusing his camera on the sunny tennis courts and barren fields of each setting, Benning indicts the psychological role that each environment (and its inhabitants) might have played in the murders as much as he might the murderers themselves.

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References
  1. "Landscape Suicide 1987 Directed by James Benning". letterboxd.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  2. "29 May 2012: James Benning: Landscape Suicide". closeupfilmcentre.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  3. "Landscape Suicide". cinemadureel.org. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  4. "American Dreams: Lost and Found / Landscape Suicide – 2-DVD Set". amazon.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  5. "American Dreams (lost and found) & Landscape Suicide". edition-filmmuseum.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  6. https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2012/james-benning-landscape-suicide/
  7. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-02-05/features/8701090926_1_ed-gein-camera-cinematic
  8. "Landscape Suicide 1987 film". criticsroundup.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  9. "2Landscape Suicide". filmlinc.org. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  10. "Landscape Suicide: The Films of Daïchi Saïto". cinema-scope.com. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
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