James Benning
Directing • AGE 83
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 ...
Filmography
Eight Bridges
Director
2026
Adulthood
Writer
2026
Little Boy
Director
2025
Breathless
Director
2024
Allensworth
Director
2022
TEN YEARS LATER
Director
2022
Exquisite Moving Corpse
Director
2022
The United States of America
Director
2022
Benning's Dream
Self (voice)
2021
In Process...
Director
2021
From Bakersfield to Mojave
Director
2021
On Paradise Road
2020
PLACE
Director
2020
She Dies Tomorrow
Leatherman
2020
Maggie's Farm
Director
2020
中孚 61. The Inner Truth
2019
daylight
Director
2019
Two Moons
Director
2019
The Wrecker Kings
Thanks
2019
Telemundo
Himself
2018
after Traylor. Thoreau cabin (2008-2018)
Director
2018
glory
Director
2018
L. Cohen
Himself
2018
Readers
Director
2017
Fall Equinox
Director
2016
Spring Equinox
Director
2016
Measuring Change
Director
2016
Santa Teresa & Other Stories
Thanks
2015
Perimeter
Director
2015
52 Films
Director
2015
Natural History
Director
2014
signs
Director
2014
Coming to Terms
The Father
2013
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Self
2013
BNSF
Director
2013
The War
Director
2012
One Way Boogie Woogie
Director
2012
Easy Rider
Director
2012
Stemple Pass
Ted Kaczynski (voice)
2012
Postscript
Director
2012
Nightfall
Director
2012
20 Little Films
Director
2012
Maintenance
Himself
2012
All That She Surveys
Writer
2012
After Warhol
Director
2011
Faces
Director
2011
Small Roads
Director
2011
Two Cabins
Director
2011
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
Director
2011
Twenty Cigarettes
Director
2011
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
Owl Eyes
2011
Tulare Road
Director
2010
Pig Iron
Director
2010
Among Enemies: Jeonju Digital Project 2010
Director
2010
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
Director
2010
Ruhr
Director
2009
Fire & Rain
Director
2009
RR
Director
2007
Casting a Glance
Director
2007
Water Spell
Thanks
2007
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later
Director
2005
74.78
Director
2005
Ten Skies
Director
2004
13 Lakes
Director
2004
James Benning: Circling the Image
Himself
2003
Sogobi
Director
2002
Los
Director
2001
El Valley Centro
Director
2000
Utopia
Director
1998
Four Corners
Narrator
1997
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal
Director
1995
Deseret
Director
1995
North on Evers
Director
1992
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
1989
Used Innocence
(voice)
1989
TABLE TOP
Director
1988
Landscape Suicide
Director
1987
O Panama
Director of Photography
1985
American Dreams (Lost and Found)
Director
1984
Him and Me
Director
1982
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Director
1979
11 x 14
Director
1977
One Way Boogie Woogie
Director
1977
Chicago Loop
Director
1976
9-1-75
Director
1975
The United States of America
1975
Michigan Avenue
Director
1974
8½ x 11
Director
1974
I-94
Director
1974
Time and a Half
Director
1972