James Benning Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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