James Benning Movies

Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.

Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development....

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

The owner of a failing inn and his roadkill collector friend devise a Bigfoot hoax to draw in tourists, but a Miccosukee Hunter is set to make sure...

Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.

A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’...

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

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

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

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

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

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...

Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.

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

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

One-hour-documentation of James Benning's participation in the Moving Billboard project.

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...

glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.

This is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it). Benning condenses 93 news...

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...