James BENNING (1942, USA) has been making films for more than 35 years and has made a considerable contribution to American experimental cinema. His concerns about American culture have acquired a consistent and distinct place in films such as 11 x 14, One-Way Boogie Woogie, Landscape Suicide and North On Evers. Benning teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and at Bard College.
Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound? (1971, short), Ode to Muzak (1972, short), Art Hist. 101 (1972, short), Time & A Half (1972, short), Michigan Avenue (1973, short), Honeyland Road (1973, short), 57 (1973, short), I-94 (1974, short), 8 1/2 x 11 (1974, short), The United States of America (1975, short), Saturday Night (1975, short), An Erotic Film (1975, short), 3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording (1975, short), Chicago Loop (1976, short), A to B (1976, short), 11 x 14 (1976), One Way Boogie Woogie (1977), Grand Opera (1979), Four Oil Wells (1978), Oklahoma (1979), Double Yodel (1980), Last Dance (1981), Him & Me (1981), American Dreams (1983, short), O Panama (1985, short), Landscape Suicide (1986), Used Innocence (1988, doc), North on Evers (1991), Deseret (1995, doc), Four Corners (1996, doc), Utopia (1998, doc), El valley centro (2000, doc), Sogobi (2001, doc), Los (2002, doc), California Trilogy (2003), 13 Lakes (2004, doc), Ten Skies (2005, doc), One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (2006, doc), Casting a Glance (2007, doc), RR (2007), Ruhr (2009), Fire & Rain (2009, short), Reforming the Past (2010), Pascal’s Lemma (short), Pig Iron (2010, short), John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971 (2010), Nightfall (2011), After Warhol (2011), Faces (2011), Twenty Cigarettes (2011), small roads (2011)