James Benning Movies

  • 2012
    Stemple Pass

    Stemple Pass

    Stemple Pass

    82012HD

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

    Stemple Pass
  • 2020
    On Paradise Road

    On Paradise Road

    On Paradise Road

    02020HD

    Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.

    On Paradise Road
  • 2014
    US 41

    US 41

    US 41

    02014HD

    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...

    US 41
  • 2016
    Fall Equinox

    Fall Equinox

    Fall Equinox

    02016HD

    A film by James Benning

    Fall Equinox
  • 1984
    Pascal's Lemma

    Pascal's Lemma

    Pascal's Lemma

    01984HD

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

    Pascal's Lemma
  • 1998
    Utopia

    Utopia

    Utopia

    01998HD

    Except for some additional ambience, the entire sound track of this film has been taken (without permission) from: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian...

    Utopia
  • 2012
    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

    6.82012HD

    'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...

    Easy Rider
  • 2007
    Casting a Glance

    Casting a Glance

    Casting a Glance

    7.42007HD

    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 Jetty....

    Casting a Glance
  • 2014
    signs

    signs

    signs

    02014HD

    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...

    signs
  • 2011
    Two Cabins

    Two Cabins

    Two Cabins

    72011HD

    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...

    Two Cabins
  • 2017
    Readers

    Readers

    Readers

    4.52017HD

    Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film...

    Readers
  • 2010
    Reforming the Past

    Reforming the Past

    Reforming the Past

    02010HD

    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...

    Reforming the Past
  • 2019
    daylight

    daylight

    daylight

    02019HD

    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...

    daylight
  • 2012
    All That She Surveys

    All That She Surveys

    All That She Surveys

    02012HD

    A short film by Gary Mairs written by James Benning. Stars Amy Seimetz.

    All That She Surveys
  • 2016
    Fresh Air

    Fresh Air

    Fresh Air

    02016HD

    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...

    Fresh Air
  • 2017
    Untitled Fragments

    Untitled Fragments

    Untitled Fragments

    02017HD

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

    Untitled Fragments
  • 2010
    Pig Iron

    Pig Iron

    Pig Iron

    7.22010HD

    Iron ore is super heated in a blast furnace to make pig iron, which in turn is used to produce steel. The making of steel is a continuous process....

    Pig Iron
  • 2019
    中孚 61. The Inner Truth

    中孚 61. The Inner Truth

    中孚 61. The Inner Truth

    02019HD

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

    中孚 61. The Inner Truth
  • 2016
    scorched earth

    scorched earth

    scorched earth

    02016HD

    "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...

    scorched earth
  • 2022
    Allensworth

    Allensworth

    Allensworth

    82022HD

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

    Allensworth