She Dies Tomorrow
She Dies Tomorrow
5.2/102020HD
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...
James Benning
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RR
RR7/102007HDLooping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development....
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little boy
little boy0/102025HDA film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’...
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Landscape Suicide
Landscape Suicide7.5/101987HDBenning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...
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Small Roads
Small Roads6.9/102011HDLengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.
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Deseret
Deseret5.5/101996HDThis is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it). Benning condenses 93 news...
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One Way Boogie Woogie
One Way Boogie Woogie5.8/101977HDSixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual...
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Ruhr
Ruhr6.6/102009HDSeven entirely static shots make up James Benning's quiet reflection on existence in the Ruhr Valley.
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10 Skies
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American Dreams (Lost and Found)
American Dreams (Lost and Found)7.2/101984HDScrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire...
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BNSF
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13 Lakes
13 Lakes6.9/102004HDShots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
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Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater6.4/102013HDIn 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...
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The United States of America
The United States of America7.6/101975HDA conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and...
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Faces
Faces0/102011HDJames Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As...
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One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later6.3/102005HDOne half filmed in 1977, one half filmed 27 years later.
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El Valley Centro
El Valley Centro7.2/101999HDExperimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy"....
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Santa Teresa & Other Stories
Santa Teresa & Other Stories5.4/102015HDIn the fictional city of Santa Teresa, located on the border between Mexico and USA, the researcher Juan de Dios Martínez straddles the line...
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Nightfall
Nightfall6.2/102012HDA 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
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North on Evers
North on Evers7.2/101992HDIn NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...
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Casting a Glance
Casting a Glance7.4/102007HDCasting a Glance is a tribute to the American artist Robert Smithson. Between May 15 2005 and January 14 2007, I made 16 trips to the Spiral Jetty....
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Los
Los6.4/102001HDLos Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film, part 2 of Benning's "California Trilogy".
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One Way Boogie Woogie
One Way Boogie Woogie7.5/102012HDIn 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...
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Easy Rider
Easy Rider6.8/102012HD'After doing a re-make of John Cassevetes’ "Faces" [1968], I decided to re-make another American classic, Dennis Hopper’s "Easy Rider"...
