James Benning Movies

James Benning watches tv with a young girl.

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

"Him And Me" has Benning's hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that juxtaposes concrete...

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

James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.

Benning shot Tulare Road on a highway in California’s Central Valley, an area that the director had previously explored in his film El Valley...

Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.

Presented on a computer, "Pascal's Lemma" features mathematics (diagrams, equations, questions), biographical information about Blaise Pascal, and...

A short film about masculinity

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin