JAMES BENNING
DIRECTING
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.
13 Lakes 2004
Ruhr 2009
Landscape Suicide 1987
10 Skies 2004
RR 2007
Los 2001
El Valley Centro 1999
Small Roads 2011
11 x 14 1977
Stemple Pass 2012
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later 2005
One Way Boogie Woogie 1977
Allensworth 2022
The United States of America 2022
Readers 2017
L. Cohen 2018
From Bakersfield to Mojave 2021