{"id":4457,"date":"2012-04-16T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:29:54","slug":"james-benning-twenty-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2012\/04\/16\/james-benning-twenty-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"James Benning: Twenty Cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>April 19, 6:00 p.m. <\/strong>| <em>James Benning in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2012\/01\/JBenning_20Cigarettes2011_WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4176\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2012\/01\/JBenning_20Cigarettes2011_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>James Benning, Twenty Cigarettes (2011). Courtesy the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning  turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, Twenty  Cigarettes. Referencing Warhol\u2019s screen tests, 1930\u2019s Hollywood glamour,  and the disappearing cigarette break,  the film captures 20 of Benning\u2019s friends (including filmmaker Sharon  Lockhart, cultural theorist Dick Hebdige, and book editor Janet Jenkins)  satiating their smoke cravings. Each shot\u2019s length is determined by the  time it takes each subject to smoke a cigarette, and over the course of  the film a dynamic range of personalities emerges out of an array of  physical characteristics, distinctive settings, and personal  relationships to the camera. <strong>2011, USA, HDCAM, 99 minutes + discussion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMES BENNING&#8217;S <\/strong>(b. 1942, Milwaukee) filmic meditations on the social  and political dimensions of American landscapes have played a vital role  in history of experimental film. His films have screened  internationally at festivals and other institutions, including the  Vienna International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Sundance,  Rotterdam; International Forum des Jungen Films, Berlin; Image Forum,  Japan; Los Angeles Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker  Art Center; Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the Whitney Museum of American  Art. He is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation  Fellowship. In addition to filmmaking, Benning is a professor at the  California Institute of the Arts, and has taught at Northwestern  University, Bard College, University of Wisconsin, University of  Oklahoma, and the University of California\u2013San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 6:00 p.m. | James Benning in person! James Benning, Twenty Cigarettes (2011). Courtesy the artist. Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, Twenty Cigarettes. Referencing Warhol\u2019s screen tests, 1930\u2019s Hollywood glamour, and the disappearing cigarette break, the film captures 20 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2012\/04\/16\/james-benning-twenty-cigarettes\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from James Benning: Twenty Cigarettes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":4176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[211,476,615],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17","tag-experimental","tag-political","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}