Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at The University of Oxford. His previous publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022), James Benning’s Environments (co-edited with Daniele Rugo, 2019) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015). Daniele Rugo is Professor of Film at Brunel, University of London and an award-winning filmmaker. He has held visiting positions at University of Oxford, LSE and Sciences Po.

• Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo 　Intellectual EnvironmentsSurveying James Benning, Scott MacDonaldUtah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret, John BeckViolence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj LübeckerMaterial EnvironmentsConstructing the Transversal Time-Image: Ecosophy, Immanence and Corporate ‘Land’ in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy, Colin GardnerMen in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition, Silke PanseThe Earth as Material Film: Benning’s light glance making a material-image, Felicity ColmanPerceptual EnvironmentsA Lake-Event, Tom ConleyDefacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-BiagioliThe Adventure of Patience, Daniele RugoIndex

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at The University of Oxford. His previous publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022), James Benning’s Environments (co-edited with Daniele Rugo, 2019) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015). Daniele Rugo is Professor of Film at Brunel, University of London and an award-winning filmmaker. He has held visiting positions at University of Oxford, LSE and Sciences Po.

• Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo 　Intellectual EnvironmentsSurveying James Benning, Scott MacDonaldUtah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret, John BeckViolence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj LübeckerMaterial EnvironmentsConstructing the Transversal Time-Image: Ecosophy, Immanence and Corporate ‘Land’ in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy, Colin GardnerMen in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition, Silke PanseThe Earth as Material Film: Benning’s light glance making a material-image, Felicity ColmanPerceptual EnvironmentsA Lake-Event, Tom ConleyDefacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-BiagioliThe Adventure of Patience, Daniele RugoIndex

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at The University of Oxford. His previous publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022), James Benning’s Environments (co-edited with Daniele Rugo, 2019) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015). Daniele Rugo is Professor of Film at Brunel, University of London and an award-winning filmmaker. He has held visiting positions at University of Oxford, LSE and Sciences Po.

• Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo 　Intellectual EnvironmentsSurveying James Benning, Scott MacDonaldUtah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret, John BeckViolence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj LübeckerMaterial EnvironmentsConstructing the Transversal Time-Image: Ecosophy, Immanence and Corporate ‘Land’ in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy, Colin GardnerMen in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition, Silke PanseThe Earth as Material Film: Benning’s light glance making a material-image, Felicity ColmanPerceptual EnvironmentsA Lake-Event, Tom ConleyDefacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-BiagioliThe Adventure of Patience, Daniele RugoIndex