Known For
Directing
Born
Dec 28, 1942
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Credits
112 titles
James Benning
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.
Known For
Filmography
Eight Bridges
Director
Adulthood
Writer
Little Boy
Director
Cuba, an Historical Romance
Director
Breathless
Director
Allensworth
Director
TEN YEARS LATER
Director
Exquisite Moving Corpse
Director
The United States of America
Director
Benning's Dream
Self (voice)
In Process...
Director
From Bakersfield to Mojave
Director
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
Director
On Paradise Road
PLACE
Director
She Dies Tomorrow
Leatherman
Maggie's Farm
Director
中孚 61. The Inner Truth
daylight
Director
Two Moons
Director
The Wrecker Kings
Thanks
Telemundo
Himself
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)
Director
glory
Director
Birth of a Nation
Director
L. Cohen
Himself
SAM
Director
Readers
Director
Untitled Fragments
Director
Ash 01
Director
scorched earth
Director
thinking of red
wavelength
Director
Fall Equinox
Director
Spring Equinox
Director
Measuring Change
Director
Fresh Air
Director
Santa Teresa & Other Stories
Thanks
Perimeter
Director
52 Films
Director
Concord Woods
Director
Natural History
Director
US 41
Director
HF
Director
signs
Director
FUCK ME (orange)
Director
FUCK ME (green)
Director
Coming to Terms
The Father
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Self
BNSF
Director