James Benning Filmes

A film by James Benning

As we ascend a mountain, we move backwards in time. Like most of Benning's films, Spring Equinox is at once direct and mystical. Simple images and...

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

Casting a Glance is a tribute to the American artist Robert Smithson. Between May 15 2005 and January 14 2007, I made 16 trips to the Spiral Jetty....

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

Iron ore is super heated in a blast furnace to make pig iron, which in turn is used to produce steel. The making of steel is a continuous process....

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

A short film by Gary Mairs written by James Benning. Stars Amy Seimetz.

James Benning appropriates a 14-second excerpt from his own film Time and a Half (second entry in his filmography), dissects the scene into its...

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

In this short black and white study Benning uses dissolves, shifting camera angles and cross-fades to experiment with narrative structure.

Last week I made a film of 49 of my T-shirts called Fresh Air. It was to be purely structural. For sound I recorded (in sync) the quiet ambience of...

A film by James Benning

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Filmed on November 21 and 22, 2018 in Valencia, California. A gibbous and full moon rising.

It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned...