James Benning Movies

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

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

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

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

Filmed in Sierra Nevada, California over one day. Static and still shots of the actual landscape and environments in the area.

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

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

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...

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...

A short film about masculinity

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

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

Short by James Benning.

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

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

A short film about femininity

In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing...

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

"Ash 01 is a declassified recording made from a B-52 bomber on December 26, 1972 during the Christmas carpet bombing of Hanoi." - James Benning. This...

Stills from a trip in Cuba.