James Benning Movies

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

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

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...

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

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

Short by James Benning.

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

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...

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

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

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...

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

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

Data Entry (2014) extends Benning’s interest in the complex cipher systems Kaczynski developed to encrypt his journals. The video focuses on...

Benning shot Tulare Road on a highway in California’s Central Valley, an area that the director had previously explored in his film El Valley...

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...

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

The 16mm test roll for James Benning's feature-length film TEN SKIES. 74.78 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

Filmed in Sierra Nevada, California over one day. Static and still shots of the actual landscape and environments in the area.