James Benning Movies
- 2014
signs
signs02014HD
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...
- 2024
Breathless
Breathless02024HD
"On November 28, 2023 I woke up early and drove down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. It's leaves were orange. The shot would be 87...
- 1995
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal01995HD
Exploring the Panama Canal is a fascinating journey through the land of mystery and adventure and the Canal that divides it. Through rare archival...
- 2022
TEN YEARS LATER
TEN YEARS LATER02022HD
James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.
- 2020
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación02020HD
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...
- 2010
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 197102010HD
James Benning appropriates a 14-second excerpt from his own film Time and a Half (second entry in his filmography), dissects the scene into its...
- 2014
HF
HF42014HD
HF is Benning’s tribute in miniature to legendary filmmaker Hollis Frampton, known for his materialist dissection of the cinema apparatus and...
- 2020
On Paradise Road
On Paradise Road02020HD
Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.
- 2011
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes02011HD
The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.
- 1974
I-94
I-945.41974HD
Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.
- 2015
Perimeter
Perimeter02015HD
Short by James Benning.
- 2016
Fresh Air
Fresh Air02016HD
Last week I made a film of 49 of my T-shirts called Fresh Air. It was to be purely structural. For sound I recorded (in sync) the quiet ambience of...
- 1984
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
American Dreams (Lost and Found)7.21984HD
Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire...
- 2009
Fire & Rain
Fire & Rain82009HD
- 1985
O Panama
O Panama61985HD
O Panama features a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, the...
- 2011
Two Cabins
Two Cabins72011HD
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...
- 2014
Natural History
Natural History5.42014HD
In 54 static shots, Benning provides a picture of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. With the exception of the first three shots, he chooses areas...
- 2010
Among Enemies: Jeonju Digital Project 2010
Among Enemies: Jeonju Digital Project 201002010HD
Six soldiers wandering in search of enemies in the forest where they can't see an inch ahead. While gathering on the island to prepare Shakespeare's...
- 1976
Chicago Loop
Chicago Loop01976HD
In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing...
- 2021
From Bakersfield to Mojave
From Bakersfield to Mojave02021HD
A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.