James Benning
December 28, 1942 · 83 years old
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…
Known For
4 titles
She Dies Tomorrow
A woman becomes strangely convinced she will die the next day. Her friend initially disbelieves her before becoming paranoid herself that she too will die the next day.
Nightfall
A sunset filmed through a forest until the fall of the night.
The United States of America
A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming.
Breathless
"On November 28, 2023 I woke up early and drove down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. It's leaves were orange. The shot would be 87 minutes, the exact length of Godard's Breathless. My film would be non-narrative, but stuff happened" - J.B