James Benning Movies

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...

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...

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

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

A short film about femininity

Filmed on November 21 and 22, 2018 in Valencia, California. A gibbous and full moon rising.

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...

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...

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

A short film about masculinity

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

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

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

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

Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes

Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.

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

61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James...

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin