James Benning Movies

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

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...

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

At Northwestern University, where he teaches at the time, Benning gives a short interview to some student filmmakers. He then uses this material to...

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

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...

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...

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

In this short black and white study Benning uses dissolves, shifting camera angles and cross-fades to experiment with narrative structure.

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...

Seven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.

Benning shot Tulare Road on a highway in California’s Central Valley, an area that the director had previously explored in his film El Valley...

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...

Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our...

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

A short film about femininity

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

"scorched earth is a film that is part of the Untitled Fragments Project. It's 60 minutes at dusk, just one shot of the burned over forest (from this...