Movies

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...

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

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...

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

This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The...

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...

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...

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

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

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

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...

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

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...

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

A short film about femininity

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.

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...

Presented on a computer, "Pascal's Lemma" features mathematics (diagrams, equations, questions), biographical information about Blaise Pascal, and...