James Benning Movies

Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.

For his performance Reforming the Past, James Benning turns towards his own film North on Evers, shot in 1991. After seeing Andy Warhol's Screen...

The 16mm test roll for James Benning's feature-length film TEN SKIES. 74.78 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...

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

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

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...

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

A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.

Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our...

[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...

Short by James Benning.

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

James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...

Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire...

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

A short film about masculinity

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes