James Benning Movies

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Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard.

A short film about femininity

A short film by Gary Mairs written by James Benning. Stars Amy Seimetz.

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 short film about masculinity

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...

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