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American Dreams
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Saturday Sep 11, 2010 (7pm)
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$10
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Three chronologies hypnotically overlap in James Benning's American Dreams: the span of champion home-run hitter Hank Aaron's major league career, summarized through Benning's own collection of baseball cards and Aaron memorabilia; American politics and pop culture that parallel Aaron's rise to fame, heard through excerpts of newscasts, political speeches and top 40 hits; and finally, the scrolling text sourcing the 1972 diaries of Arthur Bremer, would-be political assassin. American Dreams offers a dark exploration of a different topography: the landscape of the mind and the scattered remnants of American ideals.
Director: James Benning. 56 min. 1983. 16mm.
