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El Valley Centro

2000·Documentary·1h 27m
7.1
Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy". Consisting of 35 shots, each over two minutes long, the film quietly portrays nature's subjugation to encroaching commercial interests. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by James Benning

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James Benning
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mintbanana
mintbanana
El Valley Centro
feel sorry for the poor goat :(
fav scene: bits of wood or maybe stones rolling around in a field
feel sorry for the poor goat :(
fav scene: bits of wood or maybe stones rolling around in a field
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charlie
charlie
El Valley Centro
At a first glance, what looks like free space is not that at all. Beautiful, open fields stretching as far as the eye can see, seem to embrace the idea of the american dream, but in reality, these fields portray the choke hold industrialization has on this country. An endless strive for unneeded automation and efficiency driven by industries that shut out the true, dedicated farmers that don't jeopardize their crop and product for speed and ease of work. A beautiful film no doubt, containing a good mix of independent farms with those industrial, but its scary how similar two places can look, compared to one another, while their goals couldn't be any farther apart
At a first glance, what looks like free space is not that at all. Beautiful, open fields stretching as far as the eye can see, seem to embrace the idea of the american dream, but in reality, these fields portray the choke hold industrialization has on this country. An endless strive for unneeded automation and efficiency driven by industries that shut out the true, dedicated farmers that don't jeopardize their crop and product for speed and ease of work. A beautiful film no doubt, containing a good mix of independent farms with those industrial, but its scary how similar two places can look, compared to one another, while their goals couldn't be any farther apart
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Moreweighttt
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