James Benning Movies

"On November 28, 2023 I woke up early and drove down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. It's leaves were orange. The shot would be 87...

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

Stills from a trip in Cuba.

A short film about masculinity

Last week I made a film of 49 of my T-shirts called Fresh Air. It was to be purely structural. For sound I recorded (in sync) the quiet ambience of...

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.

Short by James Benning.

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

One of the films I remade was a film that used two faces in it from a short little three-minute film that I made for the Henry Mancini television...

A short film about femininity

A film by James Benning