Landscape Suicide

  • James Benning
  • 1986
  • United States
  • 92 minutes
  • English
  • From the collection of the Austrian Film Museum, Frame enlargement : Georg Wasner
    From the collection of the Austrian Film Museum, Frame enlargement : Georg Wasner
  • From the collection of the Austrian Film Museum, Frame enlargement : Georg Wasner
    From the collection of the Austrian Film Museum, Frame enlargement : Georg Wasner

Landscape Suicide examines the relationship between physical and psychological landscapes through a documentary reconstruction of two murder cases, one committed by a Californian teenager, Bernadette Protti, the other, by a Wisconsin man, Ed Gein, who inspired Hitchcock’s character, Norman Bates in Psycho. The killers’ roles are played by two actors, who read their statement/confession to the police.

  • Production : James Benning
  • Editing : James Benning
  • Sound : James Benning
  • Photography : James Benning
  • Screenplay : James Benning
  • Copy Contact : Österreichisches Filmmuseum