James Benning Movies

The 3-channel video installation brings together four histories: the 1860s scorched earth policy of Kit Carson used to drive out the Navajos from...

Short by James Benning.

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...

A stunning study of real-time light changing from day to night which was filmed in a forest high up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

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

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 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...

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

Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy"....

A film by James Benning

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

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...

A forthcoming film by James Benning, featuring shots of 8 bridges from the continental United States - the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito,...

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard.

Seven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.

A three hour shot containing light, dark, and a BNSF train in the desert.

Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian...

James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over...