James Benning Movies
- 2007
Water Spell
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"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,...
- 2003
James Benning: Circling the Image
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The American filmmaker James Benning has been one of the outstanding exponents of the structural film since the mid-1970s. Bennings artistic position...
- 2017
Readers
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Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...
- 2021
From Bakersfield to Mojave
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A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.
- 2004
Ten Skies
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Ten shots of skies.
- 2014
FUCK ME (orange)
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A short film about femininity
- 1974
Michigan Avenue
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A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.
- 2016
Spring Equinox
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Filmed in Sierra Nevada, California over one day. Static and still shots of the actual landscape and environments in the area.
- 2020
Maggie's Farm
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The portrait of an art institution: James Benning explores the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art. Each image creates a tension,...
- 2018
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)
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One-hour-documentation of James Benning's participation in the Moving Billboard project.
- 2022
Exquisite Moving Corpse
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The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...
- 2016
Fresh Air
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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...
- 1998
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...
- 2010
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...
- 2015
52 Films
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[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...
- 2012
Easy Rider
Easy Rider6.82012HD
'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...
- 2005
74.78
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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...
- 1984
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
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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...
- 2016
Measuring Change
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Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson's colossal land-sculpture...
- 2011
After Warhol
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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...