James Benning

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

O Panama features a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, ...

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning’s work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a ...

65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple’s Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man’s journeys, the ...

Casting a Glance is a tribute to the American artist Robert Smithson. Between May 15 2005 and January 14 2007, I made 16 trips to the Spiral ...

Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple ...

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

Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.

A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).

Investigating another, deeply troubling facet of rugged American individualism, James Benning gives us four landscape shots containing a ...

‘After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ “Faces” [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s ...

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

glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.

James Benning watches tv with a young woman.

The portrait of an art institution: James Benning explores the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art. Each image creates a ...