James Benning Movies

  • 2021
    Benning's Dream

    Benning's Dream

    Benning's Dream

    02021HD

    an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA

    Benning's Dream
  • 2021
    From Bakersfield to Mojave

    From Bakersfield to Mojave

    From Bakersfield to Mojave

    02021HD

    A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.

    From Bakersfield to Mojave
  • 2016
    Fresh Air

    Fresh Air

    Fresh Air

    02016HD

    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...

    Fresh Air
  • 1970
    Maintenance

    Maintenance

    Maintenance

    31970HD

    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
  • 2018
    SAM

    SAM

    SAM

    02018HD

    A filmed homage to Sam Shepard, in a single fixed frame where the treetops sway under a moving cloud cover. Orchestrated by the camera in this forest...

    SAM
  • 2010
    John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971

    John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971

    John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971

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    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...

    John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
  • 2005
    74.78

    74.78

    74.78

    02005HD

    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...

    74.78
  • 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
  • 2011
    Twenty Cigarettes

    Twenty Cigarettes

    Twenty Cigarettes

    32011HD

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

    Twenty Cigarettes
  • 2009
    Fire & Rain

    Fire & Rain

    Fire & Rain

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    Fire & Rain
  • 2018
    glory

    glory

    glory

    82018HD

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

    glory
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Stemple Pass

    Stemple Pass

    Stemple Pass

    7.52012HD

    Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from...

    Stemple Pass
  • 2010
    Reforming the Past

    Reforming the Past

    Reforming the Past

    02010HD

    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...

    Reforming the Past
  • 2004
    13 Lakes

    13 Lakes

    13 Lakes

    6.82004HD

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

    13 Lakes
  • 2017
    Readers

    Readers

    Readers

    4.52017HD

    Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...

    Readers
  • 1999
    El Valley Centro

    El Valley Centro

    El Valley Centro

    7.21999HD

    Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy"....

    El Valley Centro
  • 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
  • 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