Avant-garde filmmaker James Benning’s “11 x 14” bores audiences at first, but over the span of its 80 minute runtime, it reveals why it’s a staple of experimental filmmaking. Its singular nature of ...

This post was updated March 8 at 12:33 p.m. James Benning is celebrating half a century of landscape film mastery. From Friday to Sunday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum will ...

Countering Babette Mangolte's and D. N. Rodowick's assertion that it is difficult to express duration in digital cinema, this article argues that an array of micro-level manipulations of the ...

Born in Milwaukee, James Benning is now a respected American filmmaker and UWM celebrates his work in "Filmic Measures: Landscapes in Time," March 28-30 at the Union Theatre. Born in Milwaukee, James ...

It's future in exhibition may be limited to museums and James Benning retrospectives, but Benning's "13 Lakes" is a singular cinematic experience, equally meditative and exciting, and ultimately ...

The striking physical design of the show indicates the aesthetic that MCA’s new executive director, Abaseh Mirvali, brings to the organization’s Paseo Nuevo space. It’s a memorable transformation that ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

Over the past thirty-five years James Benning (b. 1942) has played a central role in the history of American independent cinema by offering his rigorously structured yet wonderfully graceful films as ...