11 x 14

11 x 14
  • Release date: 16 Apr 1977
  • Release year: 1977
  • Runtime: 81 minutes
  • Country: United States, Canada
  • Keywords: avant garde, montage, experimental film, art film, independent film
Plot:
One of the most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences, each offering some sort of image/sound pun or paradox. At once a crypto-narrative with an abstract, peekaboo storyline and a fractured, painterly study of the American midwestern landscape, 11x14 points toward the creation of a new, non-literary but populist cinema.
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