Movies

Short by James Benning.

A film by James Benning

signs is a sobering continuation of Benning’s career-long interest with the written word as image, text as vision: a silent parade of stills...

"Ash 01 is a declassified recording made from a B-52 bomber on December 26, 1972 during the Christmas carpet bombing of Hanoi." - James Benning. This...

A filmed homage to Sam Shepard, in a single fixed frame where the treetops sway under a moving cloud cover. Orchestrated by the camera in this forest...

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

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

HF is Benning’s tribute in miniature to legendary filmmaker Hollis Frampton, known for his materialist dissection of the cinema apparatus and...

In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond. The cabin is first...

James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over...

A short film about masculinity

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

Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.