Biography
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 extended meditations on the American landscape and its social and environmental histories. Benning’s life and work have been shaped by his passionate wanderlust—born in Milwaukee, he lived for intervals in Colorado, the Missouri Ozarks, Illinois and Oklahoma before settling in Val Verde, California in 1987, with car and motorcycle journeys around the country generating such films as I-94 (1975) and Four Corners (1997). His career has been equally restless, ranging from his early experimentation with an avant-garde aesthetic to his embrace, during the 1980s and 90s, of explicitly autobiographical elements and increased human content. With his “California Trilogy” (2000-2001) Benning entered a new phase, refining his formalist style and political concerns while distilling his abiding interest in place and exacting organizational structures.
Filmography
all 107
Movies 107
Director 89
self 7
Writer 2

Breathless (2024)

Allensworth (2022)

TEN YEARS LATER (2022)

On Paradise Road (2020)

PLACE (2020)

She Dies Tomorrow (2020)

Maggie's Farm (2020)

daylight (2019)

Two Moons (2019)

Telemundo (2018)

glory (2018)

Birth of a Nation (2018)

SAM (2018)

Readers (2017)

Untitled Fragments (2017)

Ash 01 (2016)

scorched earth (2016)

Fall Equinox (2016)

wavelength (2016)

thinking of red (2016)

Spring Equinox (2016)

Measuring Change (2016)

Fresh Air (2016)

Perimeter (2015)

52 Films (2015)

Concord Woods (2014)

Natural History (2014)

signs (2014)

US 41 (2014)

HF (2014)

FUCK ME (green) (2014)

FUCK ME (orange) (2014)

Coming to Terms (2013)

BNSF (2013)

The War (2012)

Easy Rider (2012)

Stemple Pass (2012)

Postscript (2012)

Nightfall (2012)

20 Little Films (2012)

After Warhol (2011)

Faces (2011)

Small Roads (2011)

Two Cabins (2011)

YouTube Trilogy (2011)

Twenty Cigarettes (2011)

Tulare Road (2010)

Pig Iron (2010)

Reforming the Past (2010)

Faces 1973 (2010)

Ruhr (2009)

Fire & Rain (2009)

Lunch Break (2008)

RR (2007)

Casting a Glance (2007)

Water Spell (2007)

74.78 (2005)

10 Skies (2004)

13 Lakes (2004)

Sogobi (2002)

Los (2001)

El Valley Centro (1999)

Utopia (1998)

Four Corners (1997)

Deseret (1996)

North on Evers (1992)

Landscape Suicide (1987)

O Panama (1985)

Pascal's Lemma (1984)

Him and Me (1982)

11 x 14 (1977)

Chicago Loop (1976)

9-1-75 (1975)

Michigan Avenue (1974)

8½ x 11 (1974)

I-94 (1974)

Time and a Half (1972)

Memory/Lies

Cuba, an Historical Romance

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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1942-12-28 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceMilwaukee, United States
ChildrenSadie Benning
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known As제임스 베닝, 제임스 배닝
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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