Mar 31st 2024

James Benning: Deseret (1996)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Sunday, March 31st, at 8PM

Deseret (1996)
James Benning · 82m · 16mm

Surveillance through journalistic anecdotes. Benning layers 93 New York Times stories about Utah – its violences and Mormonism – with static shots of the state’s petroglyphs, ruins, and sediment. Each sentence is a new location to lose oneself in. Fonts, hues, and terrors slowly shift over time as the curation of image and story spins together and departs.

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