James Benning Movies

One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later. Director combined the structural analysis of image and sound with fragments of a narrative...

A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).

Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

Short by James Benning.

Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the...

In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond. The cabin is first...

"scorched earth is a film that is part of the Untitled Fragments Project. It's 60 minutes at dusk, just one shot of the burned over forest (from this...

Presented on a computer, "Pascal's Lemma" features mathematics (diagrams, equations, questions), biographical information about Blaise Pascal, and...

In 54 static shots, Benning provides a picture of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. With the exception of the first three shots, he chooses areas...

In summer 2011, James Benning returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to make a third version of his seminal 1977 film 'One Way Boogie Woogie'. In 1977...

Casting a Glance is a tribute to the American artist Robert Smithson. Between May 15 2005 and January 14 2007, I made 16 trips to the Spiral Jetty....

Filmed on November 21 and 22, 2018 in Valencia, California. A gibbous and full moon rising.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.

Iron ore is super heated in a blast furnace to make pig iron, which in turn is used to produce steel. The making of steel is a continuous process....

The 3-channel video installation brings together four histories: the 1860s scorched earth policy of Kit Carson used to drive out the Navajos from...

One of the films I remade was a film that used two faces in it from a short little three-minute film that I made for the Henry Mancini television...

A three hour shot containing light, dark, and a BNSF train in the desert.

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...