James Benning Movies

One man's journey through the American landscape as he has experienced it since the 1950s.

This is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it). Benning condenses 93 news...

Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.

This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The...

glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.

In this short black and white study Benning uses dissolves, shifting camera angles and cross-fades to experiment with narrative structure.

James Benning's forthcoming film features 2 skies, one shot from Spiral Jetty in Corinne, Utah and the other from the Sun Tunnels in Wendover, Utah.

Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES....

'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...

James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over...

After having shared a common experience in Cuba, twelve filmmakers say goodbye to return to their countries and make a pact: to make a collective...

Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.

James Benning appropriates a 14-second excerpt from his own film Time and a Half (second entry in his filmography), dissects the scene into its...

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

HF is Benning’s tribute in miniature to legendary filmmaker Hollis Frampton, known for his materialist dissection of the cinema apparatus and...

Except for some additional ambience, the entire sound track of this film has been taken (without permission) from: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian...

Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.

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

James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.

Short by James Benning.