San Francisco Cinematheque presents
DARKEST AMERICANA: TWO FILMS BY JAMES BENNING
AMERICAN DREAMS
Fri, Feb 26, 7 pm
LANDSCAPE SUICIDE
Fri, Feb 26, 8:15 pm
(admission includes both films)
Incorporating biographical presentations of Hank Aaron’s spectacular baseball career, Arthur Bremer’s obsession with assassinating a public figure and aspects of James Benning’s own life, American Dreams (1984) is an examination of obsession and drive. Equally dark, Landscape Suicide (1986) finds parallels of isolation between infamous mass murderer Ed Gein’s life in 1950s Wisconsin and that of fifteen year-old Bernadette Protti, convicted of killing a classmate in mid-80s Orinda, California.
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