James Benning Movies

James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As...

One day, father makes a shocking decision in a family gathering. The family disagrees with it and against him in the very beginning. However, they...

Last week I made a film of 49 of my T-shirts called Fresh Air. It was to be purely structural. For sound I recorded (in sync) the quiet ambience of...

A short film about femininity

A forthcoming film by James Benning, featuring shots of 8 bridges from the continental United States - the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito,...

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...

A short film about masculinity

At Northwestern University, where he teaches at the time, Benning gives a short interview to some student filmmakers. He then uses this material to...