Eight Bridges

An extended, observational examination of eight different bridges across the United States, landmark experimentalist James Benning offers a stunning entry into his “numbered” cycle of films—including Ten Skies (2004), 13 Lakes (2004), and Twenty Cigarettes (2011). Following a similar formula to those pathbreaking works, Eight Bridges is composed of eight, 10-minute static shots that invite audiences to look at, listen to, and contemplate these structures in all of their astonishing, harrowing complexity. A monumental, mesmerising, hypnotic study of light, movement, and American infrastructure.

In the words of the filmmaker himself, “It seems to be the time to consider bridges.”