James Benning Movies

61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James...

For his performance Reforming the Past, James Benning turns towards his own film North on Evers, shot in 1991. After seeing Andy Warhol's Screen...

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

A stunning study of real-time light changing from day to night which was filmed in a forest high up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

signs is a sobering continuation of Benning’s career-long interest with the written word as image, text as vision: a silent parade of stills...

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

I just a did a film with my ‘Acting Bad’ class called After Warhol, where we watched a few of the Warhol screen tests and then mimicked...

Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our...

Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.

It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned...

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 short film about femininity

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

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...

The 16mm test roll for James Benning's feature-length film TEN SKIES. 74.78 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.

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