James Benning Movies

A short film by Gary Mairs written by James Benning. Stars Amy Seimetz.

A filmic paean to artist Robert Smithson's legendary "earthwork" sculpture, the Spiral Jetty. Created in 1970, the Jetty is a 1,500-foot long...

Benning's 18-minute study of moonfall in the morning sky-- A close cousin to his film "two moons". A lovely rendition of 'Moon River' accompanies the...

Benning shot Tulare Road on a highway in California’s Central Valley, an area that the director had previously explored in his film El Valley...

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

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...

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...

Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...

For his performance Reforming the Past, James Benning turns towards his own film North on Evers, shot in 1991. After seeing Andy Warhol's Screen...

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

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

This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The...

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

"Ash 01 is a declassified recording made from a B-52 bomber on December 26, 1972 during the Christmas carpet bombing of Hanoi." - James Benning. This...

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

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.

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...

James Benning watches tv with a young girl.