James Benning Movie Trailers
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Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound? Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
In this short black and white study Benning uses dissolves, shifting camera angles and cross-fades to experiment with narrative structure.
Los Trailer (2001)
26 October 2001
Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2½ minutes long, in this non-narrative film, part 2 of Benning's "California Trilogy".
Maintenance Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne’s exploration and meditation on house cleaning. Cleaning is one of the most private things we do in our homes, other than sex and arguments.
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls Trailer (2011)
03 September 2011
Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.
glory Trailer (2018)
03 October 2018
glory is a film about the present, about America and its history of abuse.
Landscape Suicide Trailer (1987)
17 September 1987
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s.
Fall Equinox Trailer (2016)
10 November 2016
Filmed in Sierra Nevada, just like Benning's Spring Equinox, but this time during a different season.
Small Roads Trailer (2011)
18 November 2011
Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.
I-94 Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.
Four Corners Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States.
Faces Trailer (2011)
19 November 2011
James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking.
El Valley Centro Trailer (2000)
27 March 2000
Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy".
Twenty Cigarettes Trailer (2011)
17 February 2011
Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES.
Breathless Trailer (2024)
28 March 2024
"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.
Coming to Terms Trailer (2013)
24 November 2013
One day, father makes a shocking decision in a family gathering. The family disagrees with it and against him in the very beginning.
Pig Iron Trailer (2010)
01 May 2010
Iron ore is super heated in a blast furnace to make pig iron, which in turn is used to produce steel.
11 x 14 Trailer (1977)
14 March 1977
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 may be having an affair.
One Way Boogie Woogie Trailer (2012)
31 October 2012
In summer 2011, James Benning returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to make a third version of his seminal 1977 film 'One Way Boogie Woogie'.
Ruhr Trailer (2009)
02 November 2009
Seven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.
Maggie's Farm Trailer (2020)
21 February 2020
The portrait of an art institution: James Benning explores the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art.
9-1-75 Trailer (1975)
02 September 1975
Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin
The United States of America Trailer (1975)
05 March 1975
A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from NY to Los Angeles.
8½ x 11 Trailer (1974)
17 July 1974
"Benning's landscape works, with their meticulous, reverential compositions, have been located in the history of American realist painting and photography, and also belong to the tradition of American nature writing.
Used Innocence Trailer (1989)
22 February 1989
Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bembenek, aka "Bambi", former "Playboy bunny" turned cop, turned accused and convicted killer who disappeared after a daring escape from prison.
52 Films Trailer (2015)
11 March 2015
[...] And then there’s the largest and fastest growing archive of all time, the Internet, and in particular YouTube.
Stemple Pass Trailer (2012)
01 October 2012
Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from Kaczynski’s journals from the early 1970s, recording his progress at hunting and gathering, and his connection to the Montana wilderness; a hand-written folded sheet of paper detailing his acts of “monkey wrenching” and first attempts at planting bombs; two notebooks written in numerical code in 1985 and decoded by Benning in 2011; two excepts from Industrial Society and Its Future by "FC" (aka the Unabomber Manifesto) as published in The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1995; and a 2001 interview with Kaczynski by J.
Deseret Trailer (1996)
18 January 1996
This is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it).
The War Trailer (2012)
30 November 2012
A new video work by American avant-garde filmmaker James Benning explores the videos of Russian activist/activist-art group Voina (“war”).
Tulare Road Trailer (2010)
31 December 2010
Benning shot Tulare Road on a highway in California’s Central Valley, an area that the director had previously explored in his film El Valley Centro (2000).
Measuring Change Trailer (2016)
12 April 2016
Towards the end of 2015, James Benning made one of his occasional expeditions to Utah, to the place where Robert Smithson's colossal land-sculpture Spiral Jetty (1970) extends out into the Great Salt Lake.
Allensworth Trailer (2022)
06 November 2022
It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned town and looking for the traces of a Black cultural history.
Casting a Glance Trailer (2007)
15 September 2007
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 Jetty.
In Process... Trailer (2021)
16 May 2021
Video essay providing a brief introduction to the work of James Benning for his exhibition at neugerriemschneider.
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later Trailer (2005)
26 October 2005
One half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later. Director combined the structural analysis of image and sound with fragments of a narrative interspersed with autobiographical traces and an almost "classical" interest in image composition, color, light and landscape.
13 Lakes Trailer (2004)
20 October 2004
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
Nightfall Trailer (2012)
03 March 2012
A stunning study of real-time light changing from day to night which was filmed in a forest high up s
Two Cabins Trailer (2011)
17 November 2011
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 High Sierras- Henry David Thoreau’s hut from Walden Pond and the one-room plywood shack in rural Montana from which Theodore John Kaczynski (the ‘Unabomber’) conducted his 16-year bombing campaign via the U.
Spring Equinox Trailer (2016)
28 July 2016
Filmed in Sierra Nevada, California over one day. Static and still shots of the actual landscape and environments in the area.
Readers Trailer (2017)
12 October 2017
Composed of just four shots in which Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Richard Hebdige, and Simone Forti read quietly to themselves, the film offers portraits of its subjects while simultaneously serving as a mirror for the viewers, who perform a parallel stillness.
From Bakersfield to Mojave Trailer (2021)
30 April 2021
A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.
Water Spell Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure.
Utopia Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Except for some additional ambience, the entire sound track of this film has been taken (without permission) from: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Journal.
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord Trailer (1989)
05 October 1989
Through diary entries and archival footage, the life of an industrial waste-dumper unfolds from youthful ambition to ecological disaster.
daylight Trailer (2019)
15 August 2019
Benning's 18-minute study of moonfall in the morning sky-- A close cousin to his film "two moons". A lovely rendition of 'Moon River' accompanies the footage, filmed July 24th, 2019.
74.78 Trailer (2005)
23 January 2005
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 for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmaker James Benning).
American Dreams (Lost and Found) Trailer (1984)
05 March 1984
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 career up top, and alternating audio clips of popular songs and highlights from the news throughout Aaron's career.
Him and Me Trailer (1982)
11 March 1982
"Him And Me" has Benning's hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that juxtaposes concrete realities with off-screen mysteries.
After Warhol Trailer (2011)
31 December 2011
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 them.