简介："'13Lakes'isaformalfilmofastonishingbeauty.Itisastructuralfilmthattellsastory.Butitsstoryisephemeral,andtheattempttograspitimmediatelymultipliesitstransience.Thisishow'13Lakes'tellsastoryaboutlandscape,itsvirginity,anditsculturalization.Itreportsthatlandscapeisafunctionoftime.IttellsBenning'stravelsacrosstheUnitedStates,fromwesttoeast,fromsouthtonorth,andback.Journeyscreatedifferenceandareaninstrumentforplacingagazeintoasocialperspective.Thus,astoryslowlyunfoldsofseeingandthegaze,thatofBenningaswellasoftheaudience.Beyondthat,'13Lakes'narratesthatacamerawasplacedandsetinoperationataparticulartimeandplace.Itisafilmofwitnessing,notafilmofobservation,notadocumentation.Adocumentaryfilmexploresatheme,argues,triestopersuade.Incontrast,'13Lakes'isareflectivefilmthatisitsowntheme.Ifitadducesarguments,theyconsistofastrictlyfollowedsetofarithmeticrules.'13Lakes'isthestoryofamethodbroughttoitslogicalconclusion.Withoptimalefficiencyandmaximumeffect,thismethodproducesanewcinematicforminwhichstructureandnarrativedonotexcludeeachother,butmutuallyoverlapandevendetermineeachother.Benningthussucceedsinarticulatingthenecessaryrelationshipbetweenamethod,amedium,anideaofnature,andhisownperson.Theresultisacinematicaestheticthat,inthisradicalizedform,activatesapoliticalaspectbasedinmethod.'13Lakes'isthusapoliticalfilmwhosepoliticsconsistinmethod."MartinBeck…