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Film: Documentary Casting a Glance (2007)

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Minimalist filmmaker James Benning finds an ideal (and inanimate) muse in Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970). Built on the shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake during a drought, Smithson's sculpture re-emerged in 1999 after three decades underwater. Cue Benning, who made 16 pilgrimages to document the site for this slow, meditative film. Made up entirely of stationary short takes, Benning's work bears witness to the mutable beauty of Smithson's masterpiece as it reveals itself through the seasons and tides. It's an incredible spectacle that Casting a Glance treats with something like awe.

– Max Goldberg

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