James Benning
Directing
17
Acting Credits
96
Directed
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Benning's Dream
2021
as Self (voice)
She Dies Tomorrow
2020
as Leatherman
On Paradise Road
2020
中孚 61. The Inner Truth
2019
L. Cohen
2018
as Himself
Telemundo
2018
as Himself
thinking of red
2016
Coming to Terms
2013
as The Father
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2013
as Self
Maintenance
2012
as Himself
Stemple Pass
2012
as Ted Kaczynski (voice)
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes
2011
as Owl Eyes
James Benning: Circling the Image
2003
as Himself
Four Corners
1997
as Narrator
Used Innocence
1989
as (voice)
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
1989
The United States of America
1975