James Benning Movies
- 2021
Benning's Dream
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an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA
- 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.
- 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...
- 1970
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...
- 2018
SAM
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1997
Four Corners
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James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...
- 2011
Twenty Cigarettes
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Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES....
- 2009
Fire & Rain
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- 2018
glory
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glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.
- 2015
Santa Teresa & Other Stories
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In the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line...
- 2008
Lunch Break
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Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard.
- 2012
Stemple Pass
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Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from...
- 2010
Reforming the Past
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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...
- 2004
13 Lakes
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Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
- 2017
Readers
Readers4.52017HD
Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...
- 1999
El Valley Centro
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Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy"....
- 2012
Postscript
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Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.
- 2016
Fall Equinox
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Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...