{"id":18658,"date":"2026-06-10T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18658"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:35:44","slug":"two-cabins-2011-james-benning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18658","title":{"rendered":"Two Cabins (2011, James Benning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benning constructs his own versions of Thoreau&#8217;s and Kaczynski&#8217;s cabins and films the trees through their windows (on his property in California) synced with audio recorded in Massachusetts and Montana.  Part of a larger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artforum.com\/columns\/james-benning-talks-about-two-cabins-199805\/\">art\/cabin\/unabomber<\/a> project for Benning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/cabin1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Each cabin gets one 15-minute shot, so there&#8217;s not much to look at, just sounds.  Odd to hear a big-ass truck drive past Thoreau&#8217;s place, distant clanking and traffic near Ted&#8217;s.  I took the opportunity to listen for birds.  Merlin mostly refused to cooperate, finally IDing a nuthatch.  Birdnet picked up a house wren, but I had to hand-select its call, couldn&#8217;t just leave the app running, and bringing the birdnet-pi downstairs would&#8217;ve messed with my backyard stats.  So, the movie didn&#8217;t work to get me in the mood for our own trip to the cabin, where Merlin always hears plenty of birds, including actual merlins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/cabin2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benning constructs his own versions of Thoreau&#8217;s and Kaczynski&#8217;s cabins and films the trees through their windows (on his property in California) synced with audio recorded in Massachusetts and Montana. Part of a larger art\/cabin\/unabomber project for Benning. Each cabin gets one 15-minute shot, so there&#8217;s not much to look at, just sounds. Odd to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,239,1860,1838],"class_list":["post-18658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-birds","tag-james-benning","tag-long-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18684,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions\/18684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}