Directing
James Benning
EN, ES, XX, KO cinema · 115 credits
Born
28 December 1942 (age 83)
Birthplace
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also known as 제임스 베닝 · 제임스 배닝
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.
Known for
Filmography
Two Skies
Two Skies
Director
Hwy 1
Hwy 1
Director
Eden
Eden
Director
Eight Bridges
Director
Little Boy
Director
Breathless
Director
Allensworth
Director, Producer
The United States of America
Director, Writer
Benning's Dream
as Self (voice)
In Process...
Director
She Dies Tomorrow
as Leatherman
On Paradise Road
Actor, Director
PLACE
Director
Maggie's Farm
Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
daylight
Director
Two Moons
Director
L. Cohen
as Himself, Director
Telemundo
as Himself, Director, Producer
SAM
2018
SAM
Director
glory
Director
Readers
Director
thinking of red
2016
thinking of red
Actor, Director
Measuring Change
Director
Spring Equinox
Director
Fall Equinox
Director
Perimeter
Director
52 Films
Director
Natural History
Director
US 41
2014
US 41
Director
signs
Director
HF
2014
HF
Director
Data Entry
Director
Coming to Terms
as The Father
BNSF
Director
Maintenance
as Himself
Stemple Pass
as Ted Kaczynski (voice), Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
The War
Director
Nightfall
Director
Easy Rider
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Postscript
Director
20 Little Films
Director
Twenty Cigarettes
Director, Writer
Small Roads
Director
Two Cabins
Director
Faces
Director
After Warhol
Director
Pig Iron
Producer, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Tulare Road
Director
Ruhr
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Sound Editor
Fire & Rain
Director
RR
Director
Casting a Glance
Editor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound
Water Spell
Thanks
74.78
Director
13 Lakes
Director
Ten Skies
Director, Producer
Sogobi
Director
Los
Director
El Valley Centro
Director
Utopia
Director
Four Corners
as Narrator, Director
Deseret
Director
North on Evers
Director
Used Innocence
as (voice), Director, Writer
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
Actor, Thanks
TABLE TOP
Director
Landscape Suicide
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
O Panama
Sound, Director of Photography, Editor, Director
Him and Me
Director
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Director, Writer
11 x 14
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
One Way Boogie Woogie
Director, Writer
Chicago Loop
Director
The United States of America
Actor, Director
9-1-75
Director
8½ x 11
Director
I-94
Director
Michigan Avenue
Director
