Twenty Cigarettes

Twenty Cigarettes

99 mins | Documentary | Feb. 17, 2011

Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES. Referencing Warhol’s screen tests, 1930s Hollywood glamour, and the disappearing cigarette break, the film captures 20 of Benning’s friends (including filmmaker Sharon Lockhart, cultural theorist Dick Hebdige, and book editor Janet Jenkins) satiating their smoke cravings. Each shot’s length is determined by the time it takes each subject to smoke a cigarette, and over the course of the film a dynamic range of personalities emerges out of an array of physical characteristics, distinctive settings, and personal relationships to the camera. (Amy Beste and Jessica Bardsley)

Twenty Cigarettes

99 mins | Documentary | Feb. 17, 2011

Twenty Cigarettes
Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES. Referencing Warhol’s screen tests, 1930s Hollywood glamour, and the disappearing cigarette break, the film captures 20 of Benning’s friends (including filmmaker Sharon Lockhart, cultural theorist Dick Hebdige, and book editor Janet Jenkins) satiating their smoke cravings. Each shot’s length is determined by the time it takes each subject to smoke a cigarette, and over the course of the film a dynamic range of personalities emerges out of an array of physical characteristics, distinctive settings, and personal relationships to the camera. (Amy Beste and Jessica Bardsley)
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Twenty Cigarettes
Directors James Benning
Writers James Benning

Cast

Francesca Sloane

as Herself

Thom Andersen

as Himself

Stefan Pascher

as Himself

Blake Derrington

as Himself

Norma Turner

as Herself

Fabian Euresti

as Himself

Sharon Lockhart

as Herself

Dick Hebdige

as Himself

Hye Sung Moon

as Herself

Dave Crane

as Himself

Janet Jenkins

as Herself

Tanya Barber

as Herself

Kelman Duran

as Himself

Suzan Pitt

as Herself