James Benning Movies
- 2022

Allensworth
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It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned...
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- 2022

Exquisite Moving Corpse
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The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...
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- 2007

Casting a Glance
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A filmic paean to artist Robert Smithson's legendary "earthwork" sculpture, the Spiral Jetty. Created in 1970, the Jetty is a 1,500-foot long...
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- 2011

After Warhol
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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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- 2002

Sogobi
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Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian...
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- 1976

Chicago Loop
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In three virtuosic sequences created entirely in-camera, Benning alternates contrary camera movements in a trio of Chicago locations with increasing...
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- 2015

Perimeter
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Short by James Benning.
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- 2020

Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
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After having shared a common experience in Cuba, twelve filmmakers say goodbye to return to their countries and make a pact: to make a collective...
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- 2020

On Paradise Road
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Filmed at Benning's home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time.
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- 2012

Postscript
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Text by Theodore J. Kaczynski, made of scans of a document from an FBI Laboratory, about the danger of experiments with accelerated particles.
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- 1974

I-94
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Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.
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- 1972

Time and a Half
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Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.
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- 1970

Two Skies
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James Benning's forthcoming film features 2 skies, one shot from Spiral Jetty in Corinne, Utah and the other from the Sun Tunnels in Wendover, Utah.
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- 2019

中孚 61. The Inner Truth
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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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- 2010

John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
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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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- 2005

74.78
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The 16mm test roll for James Benning's feature-length film TEN SKIES. 74.78 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...
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- 2022

TEN YEARS LATER
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James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.
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- 2009

Fire & Rain
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- 2014

signs
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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...
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- 2013

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