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...

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...

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

A short film about masculinity

Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.

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...