James Benning Movies

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 man's journey through the American landscape as he has experienced it since the 1950s.

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 stunning study of real-time light changing from day to night which was filmed in a forest high up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later. Director combined the structural analysis of image and sound with fragments of a narrative...

A crisscross through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically,...

James Benning watches tv with a young girl.

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

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

A short film about femininity

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

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...

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

James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As...

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

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...

Short by James Benning.

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...