Directing · geboren 1942-12-28 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

James Benning

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.

Bekannt aus

• She Dies Tomorrow (2020) – Leatherman
• RR (2007) – Director
• Landscape Suicide (1987) – Director
• Deseret (1996) – Director
• Ten Skies (2004) – Director
• 13 Lakes (2004) – Director
• One Way Boogie Woogie (1977) – Director
• small roads (2011) – Director
• Ruhr (2009) – Director
• American Dreams (Lost and Found) (1984) – Director
• The United States of America (1975)
• El Valley Centro (2000) – Director
• One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (2005) – Director
• BNSF (2013) – Director
• Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013) – Self
• Los (2001) – Director
• North on Evers (1992) – Director
• Nightfall (2012) – Director
• Santa Teresa y otras historias (2015) – Thanks
• Stemple Pass (2012) – Ted Kaczynski (voice)
• Twenty Cigarettes (2011) – Director
• Casting a Glance (2007) – Editor
• 11 x 14 (1977) – Director
• I-94 (1974) – Director
• L. Cohen (2018) – Himself
• Sogobi (2002) – Director
• Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1979) – Director
• Easy Rider (2012) – Director
• One Way Boogie Woogie (2012) – Director
• Pig Iron (2010) – Producer
• Used Innocence (1989) – (voice)
• Four Corners (1997) – Narrator
• Natural History (2014) – Director
• Lunch Break (2008) – Editor
• Michigan Avenue (1974) – Director
• Coming to Terms (2013) – The Father
• Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989)
• Two Cabins (2011) – Director
• O Panama (1985) – Sound
• The War (2012) – Director