Field Recordings Day 3 – Blue Amigo (WIP) and 11 x 14

One ticket gives access to the full programme: a screening of work by Raquel Vermunt and James Benning, with a conversation with Raquel Vermunt about her work in progress. For more on the works and their makers, visit www.fieldrecordings.org.

Face Home View
by Raquel Vermunt, 8 min, 16mm, Netherlands, 2022, no dialogue
Face Home View traverses the organic and the urban alike as the camera performs a slow 360° take from inside a vacated cinema in Rotterdam. By zooming in and out, forms become arbitrary, at once familiar and estranged. The work listens to the echoes of passing time, revealing traces of life, sound, and movement: fleeting moments captured by the silent walls of the location portrayed on 16mm film.

Blue Amigo (work in progress)
by Raquel Vermunt, 16mm, Netherlands, 2026, no dialogue
Vermunt presents fragments from Blue Amigo, an unfinished film situated in the Biesbosch, where she lives. In a series of locked-off, carefully framed shots, a small ferry crosses the river throughout the year, endlessly moving between two shores, accompanied by mist, water and the whispers of its temporary community. An atmosphere unfolds in which time seems to stretch.
This work-in-progress presentation will be followed by a conversation with Raquel Vermunt about her working process.

11 x 14
by James Benning, 82 min, 16mm transferred to digital, USA, 1977, no dialogue
Benning’s first feature-length film presents miniature elliptical storylines, in which various characters meet and part ways in urban landscapes and apartments, embark alone on elevated train rides, and travel together through rural America. Devised as a series of precisely composed single-shot sequences, these brief narratives are interspersed with still images of billboards and gas stations and punctuations of black leader. 11 x 14 is both an inquiry into American life and landscape, and a reconfiguration of the fundamentals of cinematic form, a defining characteristic of Benning’s later body of work.