One of the most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences, each offering some sort of image/sound pun or paradox. At once a crypto-narrative with an abstract, peekaboo storyline and a fractured, painterly study of the American midwestern landscape, 11x14 points toward the creation of a new, non-literary but populist cinema.(James Hoberman, who chose 11 x 14 as one of the top ten films of the seventies (Film Comment, January 1980) and later wrote the above text in The Village Voice)
早川猛(小田切让饰)在大城市里事业顺利,是名年轻有为的摄影师,其兄早川稔(香川照之饰)则在家乡继承父业,经营一家小加油站。在母亲的周年忌日,猛从东京回到老家探亲,昔日情人智惠子(真木阳子饰)在加油站工作,她感叹当年没跟猛离开。年轻气盛的猛和传统而顽固的父亲动不动就起冲突,而身为大哥的稔却顺从父亲。之后兄弟二人和智惠子去附近溪谷游玩,不料智惠子从古老破旧的吊桥坠下身亡。当时唯一在她身边的稔成了杀人嫌疑犯,猛为了帮助兄长四处奔走,力图证实这是一起意外。然而在开庭过程中,稔突然一反常态……