James Benning

director • editor • producer

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...

Born: December 28, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (age 82)

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Known For

6.5

She Dies Tomorrow

Movies & TV Credits

86 total credits across film and television

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Cuba, an Historical Romance Movie	—	Directing	Director	2024
Breathless Movie	—	Directing	Director	2024
The United States of America Movie	6.7	Directing	Director	2022
Allensworth Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	2022
Exquisite Moving Corpse Movie	—	Directing	Director	2022
Two Moons Short Film	6.2	Directing	Director	2022
Daylight Short Film	—	Directing	Director	2022
Benning's Dream Short Film	—	Actor	Self (voice)	2021
From Bakersfield to Mojave Movie	8.1	Directing	Director	2021
In Process... Movie	—	Directing	Director	2021
She Dies Tomorrow Movie	4.8	Actor	Leatherman	2020
On Paradise Road Movie	6.4	Actor	—	2020
Maggie's Farm Movie	6.6	Directing	Director	2020
Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación Movie	—	Directing	Director	2020
On Paradise Road Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	2020
中孚 61. The Inner Truth Movie	—	Actor	—	2019
L. Cohen Movie	6.2	Actor	Himself	2018
L. Cohen Movie	6.2	Directing	Director	2018
SAM Movie	—	Directing	Director	2018
The Wrecker Kings Short Film	—	Crew	Thanks	2018
Readers Movie	6.0	Directing	Director	2017
Measuring Change Movie	6.6	Directing	Director	2016
Spring Equinox Movie	7.8	Directing	Director	2016
Fall Equinox Movie	7.5	Directing	Director	2016
Santa Teresa & Other Stories Movie	6.3	Crew	Thanks	2015
52 Films Movie	—	Directing	Director	2015
Perimeter Short Film	4.7	Directing	Director	2015
Natural History Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	2014
Chicago Loop Short Film	8.0	Directing	Director	2014
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater Movie	6.6	Actor	Self	2013
Coming to Terms Movie	6.7	Actor	The Father	2013
BNSF Movie	7.0	Directing	Director	2013
Stemple Pass Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	2012
One Way Boogie Woogie Movie	7.3	Directing	Director	2012
Nightfall Movie	6.7	Directing	Director	2012
Easy Rider Movie	6.7	Directing	Director	2012
20 Little Films Movie	—	Directing	Director	2012
All That She Surveys Short Film	7.2	Writing	Writer	2012
The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes Short Film	6.7	Actor	Owl Eyes	2011
Small Roads Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	2011
Twenty Cigarettes Movie	5.8	Directing	Director	2011
Faces Movie	5.6	Directing	Director	2011
After Warhol Movie	4.8	Directing	Director	2011
Two Cabins Short Film	6.0	Directing	Director	2011
YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls Short Film	6.9	Directing	Director	2011
John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971 Movie	—	Directing	Director	2010
Tulare Road Movie	—	Directing	Director	2010
Pig Iron Short Film	7.2	Directing	Director	2010
Ruhr Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	2009
Fire & Rain Short Film	6.2	Directing	Director	2009
Lunch Break Movie	6.9	Editing	Editor	2008
Casting a Glance Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	2007
RR Movie	7.3	Directing	Director	2007
Water Spell Short Film	5.5	Crew	Thanks	2007
One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	2005
13 Lakes Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	2004
Ten Skies Movie	6.7	Directing	Director	2004
James Benning: Circling the Image Movie	7.7	Actor	Himself	2003
Sogobi Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	2002
Los Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	2001
El Valley Centro Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1999
Utopia Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	1998
Four Corners Movie	7.2	Actor	Narrator	1997
Four Corners Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1997
Deseret Movie	5.6	Directing	Director	1996
Panama: Exploring the Panama Canal Movie	—	Directing	Director	1995
North on Evers Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	1992
Used Innocence Movie	6.8	Actor	(voice)	1989
Used Innocence Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	1989
TABLE TOP Movie	—	Directing	Director	1988
Landscape Suicide Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1987
O Panama Short Film	6.6	Directing	Director	1985
American Dreams (Lost and Found) Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	1984
Him and Me Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	1982
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance Movie	7.5	Directing	Director	1979
11 x 14 Movie	7.0	Directing	Director	1977
One Way Boogie Woogie Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	1977
8 1/2 X 11 Short Film	8.3	Directing	Director	1977
The United States of America Short Film	6.9	Actor	—	1975
The United States of America Short Film	6.9	Directing	Director	1975
9-1-75 Short Film	—	Directing	Director	1975
3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording Short Film	—	Directing	Director	1975
Michigan Avenue Short Film	5.3	Directing	Director	1974
I-94 Short Film	6.1	Directing	Director	1974
Time and a Half Short Film	—	Directing	Director	1972
Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound? Short Film	—	Directing	Director	1971

James Benning

Known For

13 Lakes

Deseret

Landscape Suicide

She Dies Tomorrow

Movies & TV Credits