Two Cabins

November. 17,2011      
Rating:
6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the High Sierras- Henry David Thoreau’s hut from Walden Pond and the one-room plywood shack in rural Montana from which Theodore John Kaczynski (the ‘Unabomber’) conducted his 16-year bombing campaign via the U.S. mail. The juxtaposition of these two simple structures invokes and implicates deeply conflicted and enduring foundational American myths concerning the scope and meaning of personal liberty, civic responsibility and the rule of law; individual conscience, democracy and civil disobedience; the transcendental value of nature, wilderness and the god-given right to exploit natural resources; American exceptionalism, environmental conservationism and faith in technological progress; the imperative to make oneself (anew), to ’succeed’ and, if necessary, to secede.

Reviews

Ceticultsot
2011/11/17

Beautiful, moving film.

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Neive Bellamy
2011/11/18

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Sameer Callahan
2011/11/19

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Beulah Bram
2011/11/20

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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