James Benning Movies

Except for some additional ambience, the entire sound track of this film has been taken (without permission) from: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian...

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

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

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...

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

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

One day, father makes a shocking decision in a family gathering. The family disagrees with it and against him in the very beginning. However, they...

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

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.

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

In 54 static shots, Benning provides a picture of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. With the exception of the first three shots, he chooses areas...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned...