James Benning

“Him And Me” has Benning’s hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that ...

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual ...

Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson’s colossal ...

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song. Release: James Benning L Cohen (2017) (698p) ...

Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of ...

In Landscape Suicide Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and ...

James Benning’s worrying and also reassuring vision of the Ruhr Valley, shot in six fascinating takes of a tunnel, a forest, a factory, a ...

Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace’s would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from ...

Many films by this master of landscape cinema are cinematic studies of specific landscapes, as is the case with SOGOBI – the Shoshonean ...

One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later. Release: One Way Boogie Woogie 27 Years Later 2005 DVDRip x264-BiPOLAR General: mkv | ...

In summer 2011, James Benning returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to make a third version of his seminal 1977 film ‘One Way Boogie ...

In 54 static shots, Benning provides a picture of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. With the exception of the first three shots, he chooses ...

Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film. Release: Los 2001 DVDRip x264-BiPOLAR ...

How do you make something last just a minute that actually takes ten times as long? You boil it down. “I took the steel rolling process ...

Master experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California’s Central Valley. Consisting of 35 ...

Casting a Glance is a tribute to the American artist Robert Smithson. Between May 15 2005 and January 14 2007, I made 16 trips to the Spiral ...

65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple’s Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man’s journeys, the ...

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 ...