Measuring Change
Measuring Change
| 12 April 2016 (USA)
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Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson's colossal land-sculpture Spiral Jetty (1970) extends out into the Great Salt Lake. The water-level was low, leaving the vast bulk of the Jetty exposed in the crisp air. His film measuring change captures two thirty-minute periods of that particular day, in the unblinking, unmoving takes that have become his trademark––beginning at 8:57am and 3:12pm respectively. A belated digital companion piece to his 16mm masterpiece casting a glance (2007), this new film hypnotically contemplates Smithson's art-work in relation to its wider environment and to the humans who walk on and around its gargantuan coils.

Reviews
Diagonaldi Very well executed
ThiefHott Too much of everything
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.