James Benning Movies

In summer 2011, James Benning returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to make a third version of his seminal 1977 film 'One Way Boogie Woogie'. In 1977...

Filmed in Sierra Nevada, California over one day. Static and still shots of the actual landscape and environments in the area.

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

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...

James Benning's forthcoming film features 2 skies, one shot from Spiral Jetty in Corinne, Utah and the other from the Sun Tunnels in Wendover, Utah.

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...

[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...

The American filmmaker James Benning has been one of the outstanding exponents of the structural film since the mid-1970s. Bennings artistic position...

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

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.

Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson's colossal land-sculpture...

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

In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond. The cabin is first...

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

The portrait of an art institution: James Benning explores the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art. Each image creates a tension,...

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...

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...

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

A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.