James Benning Movies
- 1977

11 x 14
11 x 147.11977HD
65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who...
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- 2018

glory
glory82018HD
glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.
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- 2018

SAM
SAM02018HD
A filmed homage to Sam Shepard, in a single fixed frame where the treetops sway under a moving cloud cover. Orchestrated by the camera in this forest...
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- 2016

Fall Equinox
Fall Equinox62016HD
Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...
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- 2013

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater6.42013HD
In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...
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- 1987

Landscape Suicide
Landscape Suicide7.3081987HD
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...
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- 2012

The War
The War2.32012HD
A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).
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- 2018

L. Cohen
L. Cohen5.22018HD
A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.
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- 2019

The Wrecker Kings
The Wrecker Kings02019HD
The owner of a failing inn and his roadkill collector friend devise a Bigfoot hoax to draw in tourists, but a Miccosukee Hunter is set to make sure...
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- 2011

YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls5.72011HD
Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.
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- 1972

Time and a Half
Time and a Half01972HD
Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.
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- 1992

North on Evers
North on Evers7.21992HD
In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...
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- 2014

US 41
US 4102014HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 2004

13 Lakes
13 Lakes6.82004HD
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
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- 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...
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- 1988

TABLE TOP
TABLE TOP01988HD
James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.
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- 2010

Tulare Road
Tulare Road02010HD
Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes
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- 2016

Ash 01
Ash 0102016HD
"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...
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- 2025

Little Boy
Little Boy62025HD
A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’...
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