James Benning Movies
- 2019
The Wrecker Kings
The Wrecker Kings02019HD
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...
- 2022
The United States of America
The United States of America5.52022HD
A crisscross through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically,...
- 2007
Water Spell
Water Spell72007HD
"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...
- 2020
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación02020HD
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...
- 1977
11 x 14
11 x 147.11977HD
65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who...
- 2014
FUCK ME (orange)
FUCK ME (orange)02014HD
A short film about femininity
- 1996
Deseret
Deseret5.4671996HD
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...
- 1977
One Way Boogie Woogie
One Way Boogie Woogie5.81977HD
Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...
- 2008
Lunch Break
Lunch Break7.42008HD
Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard.
- 2009
Fire & Rain
Fire & Rain82009HD
- 2016
Fall Equinox
Fall Equinox62016HD
Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...
- 1997
Four Corners
Four Corners6.21997HD
James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...
- 2012
Nightfall
Nightfall6.22012HD
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
- 2012
Postscript
Postscript42012HD
Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.
- 1970
Maintenance
Maintenance31970HD
Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our...
- 2002
Sogobi
Sogobi6.82002HD
Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian...
- 2015
Santa Teresa & Other Stories
Santa Teresa & Other Stories5.42015HD
In the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line...
- 1998
Utopia
Utopia01998HD
Except for some additional ambience, the entire sound track of this film has been taken (without permission) from: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian...
- 1984
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
American Dreams (Lost and Found)7.21984HD
Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire...
- 2004
Ten Skies
Ten Skies6.92004HD
Ten shots of skies.