BREATHLESS

“On November 28, 2023 I drove from my home in Pine Flat, CA across the Great Western Divide, down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. The leaves were orange. Within a few minutes stuff I hadn’t planned began to happen. I thought, oh shit. In the past few years a number of forest fires burned through this area. The stuff happening was due to this. I began to film. And then I was attacked from the air. War games.
My film was to be a non-narrative the length of Godard’s Breathless, but I ended up with something else. It’s breathless.”

James Benning

World premiere.