James Benning Movies
- 1976

Chicago Loop
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In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing...
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- 2019

The Wrecker Kings
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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...
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- 2016

Fall Equinox
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Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...
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- 2024

Breathless
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"On November 28, 2023 I woke up early and drove down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. It's leaves were orange. The shot would be 87...
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- 2018

SAM
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A filmed homage to Sam Shepard, in a single fixed frame where the treetops sway under a moving cloud cover. Orchestrated by the camera in this forest...
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- 2012

Stemple Pass
Stemple Pass7.52012HD
Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from...
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- 2011

YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls5.72011HD
Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.
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- 2011

The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes02011HD
The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.
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- 2004

13 Lakes
13 Lakes6.82004HD
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
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- 2018

glory
glory82018HD
glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.
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- 1972

Time and a Half
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Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.
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- 2016

thinking of red
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A film by James Benning
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- 2012

The War
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A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).
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- 1988

TABLE TOP
TABLE TOP01988HD
James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.
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- 1985

O Panama
O Panama61985HD
O Panama features a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, the...
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- 2014

US 41
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A stretch of highway blanketed by snow becomes the stage for one accident after another in US 41, perhaps Benning’s first disaster movie, or a...
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- 2010

Tulare Road
Tulare Road02010HD
Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes
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- 2018

L. Cohen
L. Cohen5.22018HD
A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.
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- 2022

Exquisite Moving Corpse
Exquisite Moving Corpse02022HD
The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...
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- 2025

Little Boy
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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)’...
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