8.0
8.0
glory
2018
Director
James Benning
Directing
Born:December 28, 1942(age 83)
Birthplace:Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:University of Wisconsin–Madison
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CommunityBiography
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 (105 movies)
8.0
8.0
Allensworth
2022
Producer
7.6
7.6
The United States of America
1975
Director
7.5
7.5
Stemple Pass
2012
Producer
7.5
7.5
One Way Boogie Woogie
2012
Director
7.4
7.4
Casting a Glance
2007
Writer
7.3
7.3
Landscape Suicide
1987
Director
7.2
7.2
Coming to Terms
2013
as The Father
7.2
7.2
Pig Iron
2010
Writer
7.2
7.2
El Valley Centro
2000
Director
7.2
7.2
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
1984
Director
7.2
7.2
North on Evers
1992
Director
7.2
7.2
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979
Writer
7.1
7.1
11 x 14
1977
Writer
7.1
7.1
Ten Skies
2004
Director
7.0
7.0
RR
2007
Director
7.0
7.0
Two Cabins
2011
Director
6.8
6.8
Small Roads
2011
Director
6.8
6.8
13 Lakes
2004
Director
6.8
6.8
Easy Rider
2012
Director
6.8
6.8
Sogobi
2002
Director
6.6
6.6
Ruhr
2009
Director
6.4
6.4
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2013
as Self
6.4
6.4
Los
2001
Director
6.3
6.3
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later
2005
Director
6.2
6.2
Four Corners
1997
Director
6.2
6.2
Nightfall
2012
Director
6.0
6.0
Fall Equinox
2016
Director
6.0
6.0
Spring Equinox
2016
Director
6.0
6.0
O Panama
1985
Director
6.0
6.0
Little Boy
2025
Director
5.8
5.8
Used Innocence
1989
Director
5.8
5.8
One Way Boogie Woogie
1977
Writer
5.7
5.7
Measuring Change
2016
Director
5.7
5.7
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
2011
Director
5.5
5.5
The United States of America
2022
Writer
5.5
5.5
BNSF
2013
Director
5.4
5.4
Deseret
1996
Director
5.4
5.4
Natural History
2014
Director
5.2
5.2
L. Cohen
2018
Director
5.1
5.1
She Dies Tomorrow
2020
as Leatherman
5.0
5.0
After Warhol
2011
Director
5.0
5.0
Two Moons
2019
Director
5.0
5.0
Faces 1973
2010
Director
4.8
4.8
Michigan Avenue
1974
Director
4.7
4.7
I-94
1974
Director
4.5
4.5
Readers
2017
Director
4.0
4.0
Postscript
2012
Director
4.0
4.0
HF
2014
Director
3.5
3.5
Telemundo
2018
Director
3.0
3.0
Maintenance
TBA
as Himself
3.0
3.0
Twenty Cigarettes
2011
Director
2.3
2.3
The War
2012
Director
thinking of red
2016
Director
中孚 61. The Inner Truth
2019
James Benning: Circling the Image
2003
as Himself
Benning's Dream
2021
as Self (voice)
On Paradise Road
2020
Director
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
2011
as Owl Eyes
Two Skies
TBA
Director
Exquisite Moving Corpse
2022
Director
Fresh Air
2016
Director
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación
2020
Director
Breathless
2024
Director
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
2010
Director
20 Little Films
2012
Director
Chicago Loop
1976
Director
Birth of a Nation
2018
Director
Among Enemies: Jeonju Digital Project 2010
2010
Director
Him and Me
1982
Director
Utopia
1998
Director
All That She Surveys
2012
Writer
Faces
2011
Director
US 41
2014
Director
signs
2014
Director
74.78
2005
Director
Ash 01
2016
Director
scorched earth
2016
Director
wavelength
2016
Director
Untitled Fragments
2017
Director
Perimeter
2015
Director
Concord Woods
2014
Director
9-1-75
1975
Director
Reforming the Past
2010
Director
Maggie's Farm
2020
Writer
FUCK ME (green)
2014
Director
FUCK ME (orange)
2014
Director
From Bakersfield to Mojave
2021
Director
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)
2018
Director
TEN YEARS LATER
2022
Director
Time and a Half
1972
Director
daylight
2019
Director
PLACE
2020
Director
Pascal's Lemma
1984
Director
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal
1995
Director
Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound?
1971
Director
3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording
1975
Director
Cuba, an Historical Romance
2024
Director
SAM
2018
Director
Tulare Road
2010
Director
52 Films
2015
Director
TABLE TOP
1988
Director
In Process...
2021
Director
Eight Bridges
TBA
Director
8½ x 11
1974
Director
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