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 ...

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Celebrated experimental filmmaker James Benning visits Salt Lake City next week for two special screenings of recent feature-length works. --- On Monday, April 15, Benning will... Celebrated ...

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 ...

Jafar Panahi will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rome Film Festival in October, with Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore set to handover the prize. The Iranian director will ...

There’s no way around it, James Benning‘s Ruhr is a challenging film. Seven shots compose the two-hour piece, all sourcing imagery from the Ruhr District of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a ...

Little Boy by James Benning has walked away with the Grand Prize at the 47th Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Film Festival, where the US director previously triumphed in 2018 with L. Cohen.