James Benning Movies

  • 2020
    She Dies Tomorrow

    She Dies Tomorrow

    She Dies Tomorrow

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    Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane...

    She Dies Tomorrow
  • 2013
    Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater

    Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater

    Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater

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    In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...

    Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
  • 1989
    Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord

    Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord

    Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord

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    Through diary entries and archival footage, the life of an industrial waste-dumper unfolds from youthful ambition to ecological disaster.

    Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
  • 1975
    The United States of America

    The United States of America

    The United States of America

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    A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...

    The United States of America
  • 1992
    North on Evers

    North on Evers

    North on Evers

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    In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...

    North on Evers
  • 2003
    James Benning: Circling the Image

    James Benning: Circling the Image

    James Benning: Circling the Image

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    The American filmmaker James Benning has been one of the outstanding exponents of the structural film since the mid-1970s. Bennings artistic position...

    James Benning: Circling the Image
  • 1979
    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

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    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  • 2011
    YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls

    YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls

    YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls

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    Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.

    YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
  • 1987
    Landscape Suicide

    Landscape Suicide

    Landscape Suicide

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    Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...

    Landscape Suicide
  • 2011
    The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes

    The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes

    The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes

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    The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.

    The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
  • 2008
    Lunch Break

    Lunch Break

    Lunch Break

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    Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard.

    Lunch Break
  • 2004
    Ten Skies

    Ten Skies

    Ten Skies

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    An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

    Ten Skies
  • 2015
    Santa Teresa & Other Stories

    Santa Teresa & Other Stories

    Santa Teresa & Other Stories

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    In the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line...

    Santa Teresa & Other Stories
  • 2026
    Adulthood

    Adulthood

    Adulthood

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    Made over 15 years, Adulthood is a feature composed of six short films, each chapter following a couple as they grow older without necessarily...

    Adulthood
  • 1989
    Used Innocence

    Used Innocence

    Used Innocence

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    Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...

    Used Innocence
  • 2011
    Faces

    Faces

    Faces

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    James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As...

    Faces
  • 2021
    From Bakersfield to Mojave

    From Bakersfield to Mojave

    From Bakersfield to Mojave

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    A document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop.

    From Bakersfield to Mojave
  • 2019
    中孚 61. The Inner Truth

    中孚 61. The Inner Truth

    中孚 61. The Inner Truth

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    61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James...

    中孚 61. The Inner Truth
  • 1984
    American Dreams (Lost and Found)

    American Dreams (Lost and Found)

    American Dreams (Lost and Found)

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    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...

    American Dreams (Lost and Found)
  • 2012
    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

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    'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...

    Easy Rider