Directing
James Benning
- Born
- Dec 28, 1942 · Age 83
- Place of birth
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 17
- TV credits
- 0
- Directing credits
- 100
Also known as (2)
- 제임스 베닝
- 제임스 배닝
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 in 1987, with car and motorcycle journeys around the country generating such films as I-94 (1975)…
