James Benning has been making experimental films since the 1970s, including projections and computer installations. He is also a professor at the California Institute of the Arts, and there’s something of his pedagogical side that is imbued in this film. In little boy we see both the painting that precedes the meticulous construction of a scale model of several buildings and its final form. The painting is done to the sound of music, the final presentation to the sound of historical speeches. A movie that uses the past as a herald for the future.