James Benning finds poetry in chaos, one YouTube rabbit hole at a time.
Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.
Editing
Three found-footage clusters, deceptively simple.
Direction
Benning's curatorial eye turns trash into treasure.
Director
James Benning
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Benning shot this entirely on his laptop, marking his first digital work after decades of 16mm film.
The title's provocative categories deliberately mirror YouTube's own recommendation algorithm logic from 2011.
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