James Benning Movies

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

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

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....

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...

A short film about masculinity

At Northwestern University, where he teaches at the time, Benning gives a short interview to some student filmmakers. He then uses this material to...