Investigating another, deeply troubling facet of rugged American individualism, James Benning gives us four landscape shots containing a painstakingly constructed replica of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season….

‘After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ “Faces” [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider” [1969]. “Easy Rider” interests me in two ways: its portrayal…

A stunning study of real-time light changing from day to night which was filmed in a forest high up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

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…

Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.

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 mosque, graffiti and a chimney.

Ten shots of skies.

Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.

Many films by this master of landscape cinema are cinematic studies of specific landscapes, as is the case with SOGOBI – the Shoshonean word for “Earth” –, Benning’s approach to…

Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film.

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 stories from the New York…

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…

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…

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.

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between…

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.