James Benning

James Benning Directing

28 Dec, 1942 (83) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

James Benning Directing

28 Dec, 1942 (83) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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... see more

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... see more

Eight Bridges

Director

18/02/2026

Adulthood

Writer

08/02/2026

Little Boy

Director

15/02/2025

Cuba, an Historical Romance

Director

31/12/2024

Breathless

Director

28/03/2024

Allensworth

Director · Producer

06/11/2022

TEN YEARS LATER

Director

11/07/2022

Exquisite Moving Corpse

Director

09/05/2022

The United States of America

Director · Writer

10/02/2022

Benning's Dream

Acting (Self (voice))

23/05/2021

In Process...

Director

16/05/2021

From Bakersfield to Mojave

Director

30/04/2021

Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación

Director

28/10/2020

On Paradise Road

Director

02/10/2020

PLACE

Director

01/10/2020

She Dies Tomorrow

Acting (Leatherman)

31/07/2020

Maggie's Farm

Director · Editor · Writer · Director of Photography

21/02/2020

中孚 61. The Inner Truth

12/10/2019

daylight

Director

15/08/2019

Two Moons

Director

29/04/2019

The Wrecker Kings

Thanks

02/03/2019

Telemundo

Acting (Himself) · Director · Producer

01/12/2018

after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)

Director

04/10/2018

glory

Director

03/10/2018

Birth of a Nation

Director

04/05/2018

L. Cohen

Acting (Himself) · Director

14/01/2018

SAM

Director

01/01/2018

Readers

Director

12/10/2017

Untitled Fragments

Director

08/02/2017

Ash 01

Director

28/12/2016

scorched earth

Director

28/12/2016

Fall Equinox

Director

10/11/2016

thinking of red

Director

10/11/2016

wavelength

Director

10/11/2016

Spring Equinox

Director

28/07/2016

Measuring Change

Director

12/04/2016

Fresh Air

Director

01/01/2016

Santa Teresa & Other Stories

Thanks

02/12/2015

Perimeter

Director

02/08/2015

52 Films

Director

11/03/2015

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