James Benning Movies

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

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

Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from...

Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES....

James Benning appropriates a 14-second excerpt from his own film Time and a Half (second entry in his filmography), dissects the scene into its...

Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.

This is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it). Benning condenses 93 news...

Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson's colossal land-sculpture...

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

A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’...

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

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

[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...

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

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

One day, father makes a shocking decision in a family gathering. The family disagrees with it and against him in the very beginning. However, they...

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

James Benning watches tv with a young girl.

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...

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...