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...

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...

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

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

James Benning returns to the location of his 2012 film Nightfall, this time at daybreak.

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

Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development....

A short film about femininity

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

[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube. I started here playfully...

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...

A short film about masculinity