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 105
Movies 105
Director 86
self 7
Writer 2
Narrator 1
Breathless (2024)
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)
The Wrecker Kings (2019)
Telemundo (2018)
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018) (2018)
glory (2018)
Birth of a Nation (2018)
L. Cohen (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)
Santa Teresa & Other Stories (2015)
Perimeter (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)
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013)
BNSF (2013)
The War (2012)
One Way Boogie Woogie (2012)
Easy Rider (2012)
Stemple Pass (2012)
Postscript (2012)
Nightfall (2012)
20 Little Films (2012)
All That She Surveys (2012)
After Warhol (2011)
Faces (2011)
Small Roads (2011)
Two Cabins (2011)
YouTube Trilogy (2011)
Twenty Cigarettes (2011)
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011)
Pig Iron (2010)
Reforming the Past (2010)
Faces 1973 (2010)
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971 (2010)
Among Enemies: Jeonju Digital Project 2010 (2010)
Ruhr (2009)
Fire & Rain (2009)
Lunch Break (2008)
RR (2007)
Casting a Glance (2007)
Water Spell (2007)
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (2005)
74.78 (2005)
Ten Skies (2004)
13 Lakes (2004)
James Benning: Circling the Image (2003)
Sogobi (2002)
Los (2001)
El Valley Centro (1999)
Utopia (1998)
Four Corners (1997)
Deseret (1996)
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal (1995)
North on Evers (1992)
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989)
Used Innocence (1989)
Landscape Suicide (1987)
O Panama (1985)
American Dreams (Lost and Found) (1984)
Pascal's Lemma (1984)
Him and Me (1982)
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1978)
11 x 14 (1977)
One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
Chicago Loop (1976)
9-1-75 (1975)
The United States of America (1975)
Michigan Avenue (1974)
8½ x 11 (1974)
I-94 (1974)
Time and a Half (1972)
Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound?
Memory/Lies
3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording
Cuba, an Historical Romance
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1942-12-28 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceMilwaukee, United States of America
ChildrenSadie Benning
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As제임스 베닝, 제임스 배닝
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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