James Benning
Director
90
Movies
0
TV Shows
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.
Behind the Camera
From Bakersfield to Mojave
Director
O Panama
Sound, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor, Director
RR
Director
11 x 14
Director, Escritor, Productor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
Adulthood
Escritor
Used Innocence
Director, Escritor
Faces
Director
All That She Surveys
Escritor
Santa Teresa y otras historias
Thanks
I-94
Director
20 Little Films
Director
Breathless
Director
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal
Director
8½ x 11
Director
Utopia
Director
水咒
Thanks
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
Director
North on Evers
Director
Landscape Suicide
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Productor, Editor
Exquisite Moving Corpse
Director
Eight Bridges
Director
PLACE
Director
Measuring Change
Director
Easy Rider
Director, Escritor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía, Productor
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
Director
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Director, Escritor
Maggie's Farm
Director, Editor, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
Ten Skies
Director, Productor
적들 사이에서 : 디지털삼인삼색2010
Director
On Paradise Road
Director
As Actor/Actress
She Dies Tomorrow
Leatherman
Used Innocence
(voice)
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
Owl Eyes
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Self
James Benning: Circling the Image
Himself
Maintenance
Himself
On Paradise Road
Stemple Pass
Ted Kaczynski (voice)
Four Corners
Narrator
Telemundo
Himself
L. Cohen
Himself
The United States of America
中孚 61. La verdad interior
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
Coming to Terms
The Father
Benning's Dream
Self (voice)