“Los is about my love-hate relationship with Los Angeles. It shows the way I see the city, an unusual point of view that most people haven't seen. The city has been so well documented, in the background of Hollywood films at least, that people who come there for the first time think they know it already. When they see my film they realize they don't really know it at all” (James Benning). For the middle installment in Benning's acclaimed California Trilogy, the director turns his eye to the urban environment of Greater Los Angeles, and reveals a city much like any other big city. Los consists of thirty-five two-and-a-half-minute shots of such normally overlooked locations as a highway, factory, garbage dump, cemetery, prison-everyday representatives of urban public space. As usual, Benning's compositional eye is stunning....Viewers are given the room to contemplate the clash between nature and humanity that both gives Los Angeles its life and is contributing to its death.