James Benning

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-12-28 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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...

Acting

Production

1972

Time and a Half

as Director

2019

daylight

as Director

2004

13 Lakes

as Director

2009

Ruhr

as Director

2020

PLACE

as Director

1985

O Panama

as Director of Photography

1985

O Panama

as Sound

1985

O Panama

as Editor

1996

Deseret

as Director

2011

1987

2002

Sogobi

as Director

2012

The War

as Director

2004

Ten Skies

as Director

2007

RR

as Director

1997

Four Corners

as Director

1982

Him and Me

as Director

2001

Los

as Director

2000

El Valley Centro

as Director

2007

Casting a Glance

as Director

2007

2007

Casting a Glance

as Producer

2007

2011

Small Roads

as Director

1998

Utopia

as Director

1989

Used Innocence

as Director

1977

11 x 14

as Director

1974

8½ x 11

as Director

2012

Stemple Pass

as Director

1992

North on Evers

as Director

2013

BNSF

as Director

1977

2011

Two Cabins

as Director

2012

Nightfall

as Director

2012

Easy Rider

as Director

2012

Postscript

as Director

2011

Faces

as Director

2011

After Warhol

as Director

1976

Chicago Loop

as Director

2022

TEN YEARS LATER

as Director

2012

2010

Pig Iron

as Director

2010

Pig Iron

as Writer

2010

Pig Iron

as Producer

1984

Pascal's Lemma

as Director

2014

Natural History

as Director

2022

Allensworth

as Director

2008

Lunch Break

as Editor

2014

US 41

as Director

2014

HF

as Director

2014

signs

as Director

2018

SAM

as Director

2012

Stemple Pass

as Producer

2012

Stemple Pass

as Director of Photography

2012

Stemple Pass

as Editor

2010

Faces 1973

as Director

1974

Michigan Avenue

as Director

1974

I-94

as Director

2005

74.78

as Director

2009

Fire & Rain

as Director

2016

Measuring Change

as Director

2016

Spring Equinox

as Director

2024

Breathless

as Director

2012

20 Little Films

as Director

2016

Ash 01

as Director

2016

scorched earth

as Director

2016

Fall Equinox

as Director

2016

thinking of red

as Director

2016

wavelength

as Director

2017

2022

Allensworth

as Producer

2007

Water Spell

as Thanks

1987

2017

Readers

as Director

1989

2018

L. Cohen

as Director

1985

O Panama

as Director

2015

Perimeter

as Director

2010

Tulare Road

as Director

2019

2004

Ten Skies

as Producer

2018

glory

as Director

2009

Ruhr

as Editor

2016

Fresh Air

as Director

2015

52 Films

as Director

2014

Concord Woods

as Director

2009

Ruhr

as Sound Editor

2009

Ruhr

as Director of Photography

2009

Ruhr

as Writer

2018

Telemundo

as Director

2018

Telemundo

as Producer

1975

9-1-75

as Director

2012

Easy Rider

as Writer

2012

Easy Rider

as Editor

2012

Easy Rider

as Producer

2012

Easy Rider

as Director of Photography

2019

Two Moons

as Director

2018

2010

2011

2020

Maggie's Farm

as Director

2014

FUCK ME (green)

as Director

2014

FUCK ME (orange)

as Director

1987

1987

Landscape Suicide

as Director of Photography

1987

2020

Maggie's Farm

as Writer

2020

Maggie's Farm

as Editor

2020

On Paradise Road

as Director

1977

11 x 14

as Writer

1977

11 x 14

as Producer

1977

11 x 14

as Editor

2025

Little Boy

as Director

1988

TABLE TOP

as Director

2020

Maggie's Farm

as Director of Photography

2010

Pig Iron

as Director of Photography

2007

Casting a Glance

as Director of Photography

2021

In Process...

as Director

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