Ruhr (2009)

• 72%
• 2009
• Documentaire

The American independent film maker James Benning has built up over the period of almost 40 years à l'œuvre focusing on places and time. En long, unedited scenes, he shows his vision of, or amazement at, phenomena or landscapes that have long been considered a part of everyday réalité. Dans la Ruhr, Benning allows his camera to roam the Ruhr Valley en Germany, where his parents came from. There are six meticulously encadré prises at places where apparently little happens: a tunnel with a single car, a forest where plan de race généraux, a factory with glowing rods of steel, a mosque with a hundred bowing heads, a wall where someone takes up against arms graffiti and an enormous chimney from which smoke is occasionally belched out. They seem to come from a different réalité, but are also familiar: worrying and reassuring at the same time.