James Benning Movies

It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned...

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...

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...

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...

A film by James Benning

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

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

For his performance Reforming the Past, James Benning turns towards his own film North on Evers, shot in 1991. After seeing Andy Warhol's Screen...

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

"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 short film about masculinity

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

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...