Trypps #7 (Badlands) (2010) [N/A]

Featuring:
Ruth Gruca

Written by:
Ben Russell

Directed by:
Ben Russell


Release Date:
April 15, 2010

Original Title:
Trypps #7 (Badlands)

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 10

"TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape. Concerned with notions of the romantic sublime, phenomenological experience, and secular spiritualism, the work continues Russell's unique investigation into the possibilities of cinema as a site for transcendence." - Michael Green, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

"Regarding LSD, brass bells, the youth of today, Terence Malick and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, phase cancellation, the Pine Ridge Reservation and the Romantic Sublime." That's how Ben Russell describes this surround sound installment of TRYPPS, an ongoing exploration of cinematic transcendence. An intensive portrait staged in the Badlands National Park gives way to a tremendous perceptual bolt by film's end. Russell's live enactment of cinema's persistence-of-vision is literally revelatory.

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Rankings and Honors

Trypps #7 (Badlands) (2010) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.8/10
Awards Won: 1 nomination

Cinematography:
Ben Russell

Director:
Ben Russell

Editor:
Ben Russell

Sound Designer:
Ben Russell

Sound Recordist:
Ben Russell

Thanks:
Ruth Gruca

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