James Benning Movies
- 2020
She Dies Tomorrow
She Dies Tomorrow5.22020HD
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane...
- 2013
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater6.32013HD
In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...
- 2012
Stemple Pass
Stemple Pass82012HD
Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from...
- 2013
Coming to Terms
Coming to Terms7.22013HD
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...
- 2007
RR
RR7.12007HD
Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development....
- 1970
Maintenance
Maintenance31970HD
Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our...
- 1992
North on Evers
North on Evers7.21992HD
In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...
- 1996
Deseret
Deseret5.51996HD
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...
- 1989
Used Innocence
Used Innocence5.81989HD
Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...
- 2011
Twenty Cigarettes
Twenty Cigarettes3.32011HD
Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES....
- 1987
Landscape Suicide
Landscape Suicide7.51987HD
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...
- 2015
Santa Teresa & Other Stories
Santa Teresa & Other Stories5.42015HD
In the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line...
- 2012
Easy Rider
Easy Rider6.82012HD
'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...
- 2011
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes02011HD
The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.
- 1977
One Way Boogie Woogie
One Way Boogie Woogie5.81977HD
Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...
- 2018
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation02018HD
This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The...
- 2012
The War
The War2.32012HD
A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).
- 2004
10 Skies
10 Skies6.82004HD
Ten shots of skies.
- 1985
O Panama
O Panama61985HD
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, the...
- 2005
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later6.32005HD
One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later.