James Benning Movies

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...

Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the...

[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...

A three hour shot containing light, dark, and a BNSF train in the desert.

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.

The owner of a failing inn and his roadkill collector friend devise a Bigfoot hoax to draw in tourists, but a Miccosukee Hunter is set to make sure...

Benning's 18-minute study of moonfall in the morning sky-- A close cousin to his film "two moons". A lovely rendition of 'Moon River' accompanies the...

A stretch of highway blanketed by snow becomes the stage for one accident after another in US 41, perhaps Benning’s first disaster movie, or a...

Benning shot Tulare Road on a highway in California’s Central Valley, an area that the director had previously explored in his film El Valley...

Last week I made a film of 49 of my T-shirts called Fresh Air. It was to be purely structural. For sound I recorded (in sync) the quiet ambience of...

A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).

James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...

One-hour-documentation of James Benning's participation in the Moving Billboard project.

Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.

Seven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.

One of the films I remade was a film that used two faces in it from a short little three-minute film that I made for the Henry Mancini television...

A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.

In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing...