James Benning Movies
- 1999
El Valley Centro
El Valley Centro7.21999HD
Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy"....
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- 2018
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)02018HD
One-hour-documentation of James Benning's participation in the Moving Billboard project.
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- 1974
8½ x 11
8½ x 1101974HD
"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and...
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- 1984
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
American Dreams (Lost and Found)7.21984HD
Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire...
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- 1977
11 x 14
11 x 147.11977HD
65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who...
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- 2017
Untitled Fragments
Untitled Fragments02017HD
The 3-channel video installation brings together four histories: the 1860s scorched earth policy of Kit Carson used to drive out the Navajos from...
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- 1988
TABLE TOP
TABLE TOP01988HD
James Benning, USA, 1988, 3m.
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- 2010
Tulare Road
Tulare Road02010HD
Three-channel HD video (color/sound), 18 minutes
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- 2011
After Warhol
After Warhol52011HD
I just a did a film with my ‘Acting Bad’ class called After Warhol, where we watched a few of the Warhol screen tests and then mimicked...
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- 2011
Two Cabins
Two Cabins72011HD
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...
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- 2010
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 197102010HD
James Benning appropriates a 14-second excerpt from his own film Time and a Half (second entry in his filmography), dissects the scene into its...
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- 2016
Ash 01
Ash 0102016HD
"Ash 01 is a declassified recording made from a B-52 bomber on December 26, 1972 during the Christmas carpet bombing of Hanoi." - James Benning. This...
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- 2014
FUCK ME (green)
FUCK ME (green)02014HD
A short film about masculinity
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- 2015
52 Films
52 Films02015HD
[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...
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- 2014
Concord Woods
Concord Woods02014HD
In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond. The cabin is first...
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- 1975
9-1-75
9-1-7501975HD
Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin
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- 2016
wavelength
wavelength02016HD
A found footage remake of Michael Snow's Wavelength
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- 2021
Benning's Dream
Benning's Dream02021HD
an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA
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- 2019
中孚 61. The Inner Truth
中孚 61. The Inner Truth02019HD
61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James...
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- 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.
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