James Benning Movies

  • 2019
    The Wrecker Kings

    The Wrecker Kings

    The Wrecker Kings

    02019HD

    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...

    The Wrecker Kings
  • 2022
    The United States of America

    The United States of America

    The United States of America

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    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,...

    The United States of America
  • 2007
    Water Spell

    Water Spell

    Water Spell

    72007HD

    "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,...

    Water Spell
  • 2020
    Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación

    Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación

    Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación

    02020HD

    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...

    Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
  • 1977
    11 x 14

    11 x 14

    11 x 14

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    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...

    11 x 14
  • 2014
    FUCK ME (orange)

    FUCK ME (orange)

    FUCK ME (orange)

    02014HD

    A short film about femininity

    FUCK ME (orange)
  • 1996
    Deseret

    Deseret

    Deseret

    5.4671996HD

    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...

    Deseret
  • 1977
    One Way Boogie Woogie

    One Way Boogie Woogie

    One Way Boogie Woogie

    5.81977HD

    Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...

    One Way Boogie Woogie
  • 2008
    Lunch Break

    Lunch Break

    Lunch Break

    7.42008HD

    Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard.

    Lunch Break
  • 2009
    Fire & Rain

    Fire & Rain

    Fire & Rain

    82009HD

    Fire & Rain
  • 2016
    Fall Equinox

    Fall Equinox

    Fall Equinox

    62016HD

    Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...

    Fall Equinox
  • 1997
    Four Corners

    Four Corners

    Four Corners

    6.21997HD

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

    Four Corners
  • 2012
    Nightfall

    Nightfall

    Nightfall

    6.22012HD

    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

    Nightfall
  • 2012
    Postscript

    Postscript

    Postscript

    42012HD

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

    Postscript
  • 1970
    Maintenance

    Maintenance

    Maintenance

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

    Maintenance
  • 2002
    Sogobi

    Sogobi

    Sogobi

    6.82002HD

    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...

    Sogobi
  • 2015
    Santa Teresa & Other Stories

    Santa Teresa & Other Stories

    Santa Teresa & Other Stories

    5.42015HD

    In the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line...

    Santa Teresa & Other Stories
  • 1998
    Utopia

    Utopia

    Utopia

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

    Utopia
  • 1984
    American Dreams (Lost and Found)

    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...

    American Dreams (Lost and Found)
  • 2004
    Ten Skies

    Ten Skies

    Ten Skies

    6.92004HD

    Ten shots of skies.

    Ten Skies