James Benning Movies

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

One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later. Director combined the structural analysis of image and sound with fragments of a narrative...

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

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

Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.

Data Entry (2014) extends Benning’s interest in the complex cipher systems Kaczynski developed to encrypt his journals. The video focuses on...

I just a did a film with my ‘Acting Bad’ class called After Warhol, where we watched a few of the Warhol screen tests and then mimicked...

Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...

In 54 static shots, Benning provides a picture of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. With the exception of the first three shots, he chooses areas...

A film by James Benning

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

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

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...

Short by James Benning.

Six soldiers wandering in search of enemies in the forest where they can't see an inch ahead. While gathering on the island to prepare Shakespeare's...

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

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

One of the films I remade was a film that used two faces in it from a short little three-minute film that I made for the Henry Mancini television...

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