
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. 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) an…

Benning's Dream
as Self (voice)

She Dies Tomorrow
as Leatherman

On Paradise Road

中孚 61. The Inner Truth

Telemundo
as Himself

L. Cohen
as Himself
thinking of red

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
as Self

Coming to Terms
as The Father

Stemple Pass
as Ted Kaczynski (voice)