James Benning Movies

Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2½ minutes long, in this non-narrative film, part 2 of Benning's "California Trilogy".

One-hour-documentation of James Benning's participation in the Moving Billboard project.

James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...

After having shared a common experience in Cuba, twelve filmmakers say goodbye to return to their countries and make a pact: to make a collective...

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

Short by James Benning.

A stunning study of real-time light changing from day to night which was filmed in a forest high up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

I just a did a film with my ‘Acting Bad’ class called After Warhol, where we watched a few of the Warhol screen tests and then mimicked...

A short film about femininity

Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.

Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the...

HF is Benning’s tribute in miniature to legendary filmmaker Hollis Frampton, known for his materialist dissection of the cinema apparatus and...

One of the films I remade was a film that used two faces in it from a short little three-minute film that I made for the Henry Mancini television...

Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.

Presented on a computer, "Pascal's Lemma" features mathematics (diagrams, equations, questions), biographical information about Blaise Pascal, and...

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...

"scorched earth is a film that is part of the Untitled Fragments Project. It's 60 minutes at dusk, just one shot of the burned over forest (from this...

James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.

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

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.