James Benning Movies

"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...

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

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...

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

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

"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...

"On November 28, 2023 I woke up early and drove down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. It's leaves were orange. The shot would be 87...

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...

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

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

James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.

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

This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The...

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

A short film about masculinity

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

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

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

Short by James Benning.