Double Play + James Benning Retrospective – An Interview with Director/Programmer Gabe Klinger

Gabe Klinger isthe director ofDouble Play: James Benning and Richard Linklaterand also the curator of the James Benning retrospective at Sydney Film Festival. We sat down with him to talkDouble Play, time in film andBoyhood.

At the start ofDouble Playtheres’s a line James Benning says in voice-over that I found quite striking and that is that “all life is memory”. Especially in the context ofAmerican Dreams (lost and found) there’s this idea of mixing cultural and personal memory, which I thin...