Four Corners (1998)
James Bennings 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 where Colorado, Ne
11 x 14 (1977)
One of the most widely praised American avant garde films in recent years, James Bennings 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single shot sequences, each offering some sort of imagesound pun or paradox At once a crypto narrative w
Landscape Suicide (1987)
In Landscape Suicide Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s Bernadette Prott was a Califor
El Valley Centro (1999)
Employing natural sound and contemplative proscenium shots, Benning skillfully composes a series of pure and majestic images that at once evoke a sense of nostalgic splendor as well as
Los (2001)
Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 12 minutes long, in this non narrative film
Ruhr (2009)
James Bennings 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
Deseret (1995)
Landscape shots of Utah with narration chronicling its history by way of The New York Times excerpts from the 1850s to the 1990s
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013)
In 1985, filmmaker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles and filmmakers The Austin Film Society raised eno
American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984)
American Dreams is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades The film encourages a kind of perverse nostalgia for the good old days Nixons you dont have Nixon to