Movies

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

Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season. Consists of static shots of the actual...

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

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

Last week I made a film of 49 of my T-shirts called Fresh Air. It was to be purely structural. For sound I recorded (in sync) the quiet ambience of...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Seven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.

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...

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

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

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...

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

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

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