One Way Boogie Woogie

Alternative title: One Way Boogie Woogie/11x14
Synopsis: In 1977 experimental filmmaker James Benning documented the vernacular urban landscape of his birthplace Milwaukee on 16mm film stock in a series of precisely framed, colour-saturated and aesthetically impressive shots of places of work and industry: factories, auto repair shops, smokestacks, streets, traffic and street signs. In 2004, Benning returned to record the changes of the last 27 years in a remake of his own film. He filmed at the same locations, restaging every single shot sometimes identically, sometimes with slight variations: some buildings have disappeared, others are new; his actors have grown older, some had passed away in the meantime. One Way Boogie Woogie became the double-length feature One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later. A further 8 years later, Benning went back to make One Way Boogie Woogie 2012. The typical composition and aesthetic criteria of the previous films remain unchanged in the film’s 18 shots, but the duration of each shot is now 5 minutes long.
DVD Features:
DVD 1
11x14 1977, 77’
One Way Boogie 2012 2012, 90’

DVD 2
One Way Boogie / 27 Years Later 1978/2005, 116’
20 page bilingual booklet
Language: English
Country: Germany
Year of production: 1977, 2005, 2012
Subjects: Film studies
Keywords: experimental film & video; landscapes; Milwaukee (USA)

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