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...

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...

Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...

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

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

Short by James Benning.

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...

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...

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...

After having shared a common experience in Cuba, twelve filmmakers say goodbye to return to their countries and make a pact: to make a collective...