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Review: Twenty Cigarettes

“Ninety-nine minutes, twenty shots, twenty cigarettes, twenty faces (ten men, ten women) – sounds exciting, doesn’t it? To anyone who hasn’t already been converted by one of James Benning’s deceptively simple structural films, the prospect of sitting through all of Twenty Cigarettes is perhaps more toxic than a cigarette itself.”

Twenty Cigarettes


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“Ninety-nine minutes, twenty shots, twenty cigarettes, twenty faces (ten men, ten women) – sounds exciting, doesn’t it? To anyone who hasn’t already been converted by one of James Benning’s deceptively simple structural films, the prospect of sitting through all of Twenty Cigarettes is perhaps more toxic than a cigarette itself.”

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Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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