James Benning Movies

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...

James Benning watches tv with a young girl.

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

One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later.

Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy"....

A film by James Benning

A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.

A short film about femininity

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...

A film by James Benning

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

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

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

Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.

In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing...

Filmed on November 21 and 22, 2018 in Valencia, California. A gibbous and full moon rising.

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

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.

As we ascend a mountain, we move backwards in time. Like most of Benning's films, Spring Equinox is at once direct and mystical. Simple images and...

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