James Benning Filmes

A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...

One-hour-documentation of James Benning's participation in the Moving Billboard project.

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

Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.

A film by James Benning

Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.

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....

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

In summer 2011, James Benning returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to make a third version of his seminal 1977 film 'One Way Boogie Woogie'. In 1977...

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

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...

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

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

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

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

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...

James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As...

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...

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...

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