Cinematography: James Benning

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Cast Willem Dafoe

Plot In "North of Evers", James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, and disturbing portrait of contemporary America. In...

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Cast Clara McHale-Ribot · Rachel Kushner · Dick Hebdige · Simone Forti

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Plot 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'. In 1977 he filmed 60...

Direction James Benning

Cast Annette Michelson · Rebecca Pauly

Plot "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. This is one man's journey through the American...

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Plot A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to...

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning

Cast James Benning · Sofía Brito

Plot Two people watch a film being broadcast on Telemundo, a Spanish-language television station. The sound of the film along with commercials can be heard. They occasionally talk to each other,...

Direction James Benning

Cast James Benning · Hartmut Bitomsky · Billy Woodberry · Sup Song Yae

Plot James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and wholly imaginary place Four Corners, that favorite tourist destination...

Direction James Benning

Plot A portrait of an art institution as a cinematic landscape: in a succession of static shots, James Benning explores the buildings and terrain of the California Institute of the Arts,...

Direction James Benning

Plot A transitional film at the end of his first decade of filmmaking, James Benning’s Grand Opera introduces a degree of storytelling to his previously more formalist devices. Benning calls the...

Direction James Benning

Plot In 1908, Allensworth became the first self-administered African-American municipality in California. In lengthy shots, Benning surveys the buildings (school, church, library) of the now-abandoned town and looks for the traces...

Direction James Benning

Direction James Benning · Denis Côté · Matías Piñeiro

Cast María Villar · Agustina Muñoz · Alberto Ajaka · Julián Tello

Plot Every year the Jeonju Digital Project, initiated in 2000 by the Jeonju International Festival (South Korea), commissions three filmmakers to make a digital short. In James Benning´s Ping Iron, making...