James Benning Movies

"Him And Me" has Benning's hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that juxtaposes concrete...

Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...

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

Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film, part 2 of Benning's "California Trilogy".

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

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

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me,...

Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire...

A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.

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...

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

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

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

an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA

[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

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

I just a did a film with my ‘Acting Bad’ class called After Warhol, where we watched a few of the Warhol screen tests and then mimicked...

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