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James Benning

Known for: Directing

Birthday: 1942-12-28 (80 years old)

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Biography

James Benning (born 1942) is an American independent filmmaker and educator. Over the course of his 40-year career Benning has made over twenty-five feature-length films that have shown in many different venues across the world. Since 1987, he has taught at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He is known as a minimalist filmmaker.

Filmography

All 92

Movies 92

Director 76

Self 7

Writter 1

James Benning

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Biography

Filmography

All 92

Movies 92

Director 76

Self 7

Writter 1

Narrator 1

ALLENSWORTH (2022)

TEN YEARS LATER (2022)

Exquisite Moving Corpse (2022)

The United States of America (2022)

Benning's Dream (2021)

From Bakersfield to Mojave (2021)

Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación (2020)

On Paradise Road (2020)

PLACE (2020)

She Dies Tomorrow (2020)

Maggie's Farm (2020)

中孚 61. The Inner Truth (2019)

daylight (2019)

two moons (2019)

Telemundo (2018)

after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018) (2018)

glory (2018)

Birth of a Nation (2018)

L. Cohen (2018)

Readers (2017)

Untitled Fragments (2017)

Ash 01 (2016)

scorched earth (2016)

thinking of red (2016)

wavelength (2016)

Fall Equinox (2016)

Spring Equinox (2016)

Measuring Change (2016)

Fresh Air (2016)

Santa Teresa & Other Stories (2015)

Perimeter (2015)

Concord Woods (2014)

Natural History (2014)

US 41 (2014)

HF (2014)

signs (2014)

FUCK ME (green) (2014)

FUCK ME (orange) (2014)

Coming to Terms (2013)

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013)

BNSF (2013)

The War (2012)

Stemple Pass (2012)

Postscript (2012)

Nightfall (2012)

All That She Surveys (2012)

One Way Boogie Woogie (2012)

Easy Rider (2012)

After Warhol (2011)

Faces (2011)

YouTube Trilogy (2011)

Twenty Cigarettes (2011)

The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011)

Small Roads (2011)

Pig Iron (2010)

Reforming the Past (2010)

Two Faces (2010)

Two Cabins (2010)

Ruhr (2009)

Lunch Break (2008)

RR (2007)

casting a glance (2007)

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (2005)

74.78 (2005)

13 Lakes (2004)

Ten Skies (2004)

James Benning: Circling the Image (2003)

Sogobi (2002)

Los (2001)

El Valley Centro (1999)

Known for
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1942-12-28 (80 years old)

Place of birth
Milwaukee, United States of America

Children
Sadie Benning

Citizenships
United States of America

Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship