美利坚合众国（别名：meilijianhezhongguo ）由詹姆斯·班宁主持执导,是一部扣人心弦的记录片。 James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?美利坚合众国更多精彩反同运动的前世今生玄奘大师大卫·克罗斯比：请以我的名字记住我舍她其谁共情光影：埃及剧院百年传奇P!NK：我所知道的一切戴夫·查普尔：淡定大上海的过客艾格妮捡风景：两年后成为：米歇尔·奥巴马自传
