James Benning Filmes

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

Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...

Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from...

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

James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...

Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson's colossal land-sculpture...

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

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

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

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...

Benning's 18-minute study of moonfall in the morning sky-- A close cousin to his film "two moons". A lovely rendition of 'Moon River' accompanies the...