James Benning describes his most recent film: “RR is a film about trains, American trains, trains moving across the American landscape.” “Seen either as a precise visual critique of the destructive legacy of the railroad on the American landscape, or as a marvelous montage honoring the mesmerizing beauty of trains in motion, James Benning's RR may be the final word on the American rails. True to Benning's long career as a leading experimental and structuralist filmmaker fascinated with the processes of land, sky, and time, (RR) comprises forty-three fixed shots of (with one exception) freight and passenger trains” (Robert Koehler, Variety). The length of each shot was suggested by the varied trains depicted, many of them familiar to Benning from cross-country trips. While much of the filmmaking, like all trainspotting, consisted of waiting, in the end, for Benning “the film came to be about consumerism and overconsumption-I could feel the weight of the goods going by me.”