James Benning Movies

A film by James Benning

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

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...

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

A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength

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

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...

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...

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

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

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

Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development....

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

Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.

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

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...

The 3-channel video installation brings together four histories: the 1860s scorched earth policy of Kit Carson used to drive out the Navajos from...

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