James Benning Movies
- 2013
BNSF
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A three hour shot containing light, dark, and a BNSF train in the desert.
- 1974
8½ x 11
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"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...
- 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...
- 1975
3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording
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At Northwestern University, where he teaches at the time, Benning gives a short interview to some student filmmakers. He then uses this material to...
- 2014
FUCK ME (green)
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A short film about masculinity
- 2021
In Process...
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Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.
- 2014
Concord Woods
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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...