EIGHT BRIDGES
There is something hypnotically alluring about James Benning’s work. With only eight shots, each of a different bridge, it’s like taking more than a cursory look at a gallery painting: the longer you look, the deeper you see.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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Friday, May 15, 2026
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There is something hypnotically alluring to the work of James Benning. He finds a simple hook (20 Cigarettes is 20 shots of 20 people smoking a cigarette each, for example) and allows that hook to play out over time. He's less interested in showing every angle of something through editing and moving cameras, and more interested in letting you actually see something. For EIGHT BRIDGES, he picks a single shot of eight different bridges and shows them for 10 minutes each. It's like when you stand in front of a painting in a gallery for more than a cursory look and notice the brush strokes, shadows, and details in the background of an artwork. Soon enough you are looking beyond the towers and cables that support the bridge, past the deck with its traffic slowdowns, to how the bridge fits into the landscape, and the boats that are crossing in the water beneath it, and if there's a train in the distance, and the weather, and the clouds passing by, and if you can see pedestrians crossing over, and whether the paint has been touched up, and all of a sudden 10 minutes has passed and it's on to another bridge. From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Astoria-Megler Bridge, and other bridges from across the country, this is definitely a movie to be seen and enjoyed on the big screen.
—Andy Spletzer
- Director: James Benning
- Country: USA
- Year: 2026
- Running Time: 82 min.
- Filmography: little boy (2025), Allensworth (2022), The United States of America (2022), L. Cohen (2017), One Way Boogie Woogie 2012 (2012), Ruhr (2009), Casting a Glance (2007), RR (2007), One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (2005), Ten Skies (2004), 13 Lakes (2004), Four Corners (1997), Deseret (1995), Landscape Suicide (1986), American Dreams: Lost and Found (1983), One Way Boogie Woogie (1977), 11 x 14 (1976)
- Language: No dialogue