James Benning Movies

Short by James Benning.

A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

In this short black and white study Benning uses dissolves, shifting camera angles and cross-fades to experiment with narrative structure.

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...

A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...

This is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it). Benning condenses 93 news...

James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over...

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...

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

an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA

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

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

Except for some additional ambience, the entire sound track of this film has been taken (without permission) from: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian...

Seven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.

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...

"Him And Me" has Benning's hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that juxtaposes concrete...

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

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...