James Benning Movies

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

Short by James Benning.

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

A stretch of highway blanketed by snow becomes the stage for one accident after another in US 41, perhaps Benning’s first disaster movie, or a...

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

Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

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...

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James...

A short film about masculinity

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...

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