James Benning Movies
- 2013
BNSF
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A three hour shot containing light, dark, and a BNSF train in the desert.
- 2014
US 41
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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...
- 2021
In Process...
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Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.
- 2020
On Paradise Road
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Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.
- 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
signs
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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...
- 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...