James Benning Movies

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over...

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....

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

A stretch of highway blanketed by snow becomes the stage for one accident after another in US 41, perhaps Benning’s first disaster movie, or a...

Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes

HF is Benning’s tribute in miniature to legendary filmmaker Hollis Frampton, known for his materialist dissection of the cinema apparatus and...

signs is a sobering continuation of Benning’s career-long interest with the written word as image, text as vision: a silent parade of stills...

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...

One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later.

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

James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

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