James Benning’s work is really starting to implant itself into mine, at least for this assignment. My idea in mind is to linger on “protagonists” a word lifted from the reading from class, to involve or move forward with the desire of mine to document planes in the sky, or perhaps flight – to feature land as protagonist. Benning seems to be making use of this in his shots, to really hone in on what I would argue lingering encapsulates, in which any points extrapolated are implicit, in the essence of the shot. I write this while watching Ruhr, and it seems Benning has cottoned on to my idea well before I thought it would be genius, with an unassuming shot of flora as a plane flies past (in which the interviewer bases their implicated thought from).

I think as well the idea of letting a Tripod solidify a shot for us, as that which is in the frame can serve as the shot in the sense that Benning describes, and for that sake I’ve really enjoyed filming a new constraint, which is that of lingering on cliffs, as a way to reap the cinematic benefits of being in a coastal environment during the mid-semester break.

That said I am slightly dissapointed that although the proximity of the planes I saw land on Hamilton Island was so extremely close, I really wasn’t in the best position at any time to film it, having been overcome with a headache.

A final point, I feel like the term Duration will really test this inspiration from Benning, as for a video that is meant to be 3 minutes long, this is a far cry from the aesthetic of Benning’s movies, which are far less bound by a constraint of duration. I think the overarching solution to this though, is overlays.