James Benning Filmes
- 2026

Eight Bridges
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Shots of 8 bridges from the continental United States - the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito, California; the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge from Arroyo...
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- 2019

中孚 61. The Inner Truth
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61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James...
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- 1975

The United States of America
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A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...
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- 2022

Exquisite Moving Corpse
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The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...
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- 1979

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
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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...
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- 1970

Maintenance
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Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our...
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- 2013

BNSF
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A three hour shot containing light, dark, and a BNSF train in the desert.
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- 2003

James Benning: Circling the Image
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The American filmmaker James Benning has been one of the outstanding exponents of the structural film since the mid-1970s. Bennings artistic position...
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- 2019

Two Moons
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Filmed on November 21 and 22, 2018 in Valencia, California. A gibbous and full moon rising.
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- 2016

scorched earth
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"scorched earth is a film that is part of the Untitled Fragments Project. It's 60 minutes at dusk, just one shot of the burned over forest (from this...
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- 1970

Two Skies
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James Benning's forthcoming film features 2 skies, one shot from Spiral Jetty in Corinne, Utah and the other from the Sun Tunnels in Wendover, Utah.
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- 1977

One Way Boogie Woogie
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Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...
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- 2024

Cuba, an Historical Romance
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Stills from a trip in Cuba.
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- 2012

The War
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A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).
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- 2010

Reforming the Past
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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...
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- 1989

Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
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Through diary entries and archival footage, the life of an industrial waste-dumper unfolds from youthful ambition to ecological disaster.
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- 1974

Michigan Avenue
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A narrative film concerning an investigation of two women in time and space, to the point where the investigation becomes the narrative.
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- 2004

13 Lakes
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Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
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- 2020

Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
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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...
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- 2012

One Way Boogie Woogie
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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...
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