James Benning

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James Benning ( Viennale 2012)

James Benning (born December 28, 1942 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American avant-garde filmmaker and documentary filmmaker .

Life

James Benning is the son of German immigrants . He studied at the University of Wisconsin and has worked at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987 .

Benning is an independent filmmaker and usually works completely alone. His films mostly concentrate on individual, minute-long shots of American landscapes , buildings or places that, except for the change of location, manage without a cut . The settings are often exactly the same length; Benning dispenses with a voiceover, instead the local soundscape can be heard.

Since the mid-1990s, his films have focused on the landscapes of the American Southwest . Among his most famous films is part of its 2000/2001 resulting California - trilogy consisting of the movies El Valley Centro , Sogobi and Los .

In 2009 he shot outside North America for the first time; the film Ruhr , made in the Ruhr area , is also Benning's first digitally shot film.

Benning's film Stemple Pass (2012) was shown as a world premiere in the Forum section at the 2013 Berlinale . In 2014, his film 13 Lakes was inducted into the National Film Registry .

The Austrian Film Museum deals with Benning's oeuvre - in addition to an overall retrospective including book publication, the release of works on DVD and the restoration of films in the house's collection, there are regular premieres of newer films.

His daughter is the experimental filmmaker and musician Sadie Benning .

Filmography

Benning in an audience discussion about Easy Rider (Viennale 2012)
  • 1971: Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound?
  • 1972: Time and a Half
  • 1972: Ode to Muzak
  • 1972: Art Hist. 101
  • 1973: Michigan Avenue
  • 1973: Honeyland Road
  • 1973: 57
  • 1974: I-94
  • 1974: Gleem
  • 1974: 8 1/2 X 11
  • 1975: The United States of America
  • 1975: Saturday Night
  • 1975: An Erotic Film
  • 1975: 9-1-75
  • 1975: 3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording
  • 1976: Chicago Loop
  • 1976: A to B
  • 1977: One Way Boogie Woogie
  • 1977: 11 × 14
  • 1978: Grand Opera
  • 1978: Four Oil Wells
  • 1979: Oklahoma
  • 1980: Double Yodel
  • 1981: Last Dance
  • 1982: Him and Me
  • 1984: American Dreams
  • 1985: O Panama
  • 1986: Landscape Suicide
  • 1989: Used Innocence
  • 1992: North on Evers
  • 1995: Deseret
  • 1997: Four Corners
  • 1998: Utopia
  • 2000: El Valley Centro
  • 2001: Sogobi
  • 2001: Go
  • 2004: 13 Lakes
  • 2004: Ten Skies
  • 2005: 27 Years Later
  • 2007: casting a glance
  • 2007: RR
  • 2009: Ruhr
  • 2009: Fire & Rain
  • 2010: Pig Iron
  • 2010: Tulare Road
  • 2010: Reforming the Past
  • 2010: John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971
  • 2011: Twenty Cigarettes
  • 2011: small roads
  • 2011: Two Cabins
  • 2011: Faces
  • 2011: YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
  • 2011: Nightfall
  • 2012: Milwaukee / Duisburg
  • 2012: One Way Boogie Woogie 2012
  • 2012: Easy Rider
  • 2012: Stemple Pass
  • 2012: the war
  • 2013: BNSF
  • 2014: US 41
  • 2014: HF
  • 2014: signs
  • 2014: Natural History
  • 2014: Farocki
  • 2014: FUCK ME (orange)
  • 2014: Concord Woods
  • 2015: 52 Films Project
  • 2015: Fresh Air
  • 2016: Spring Equinox
  • 2016: Equinox case
  • 2016: measuring change
  • 2016: Found Fragments: Scorched Earth, Ash 01, Red Cloud
  • 2016: Levee Road
  • 2017: Readers
  • 2018: L. Cohen
  • 2018: Telemundo
  • 2018: glory
  • 2019: Two moons
  • 2020: Maggie's Farm

Exhibitions

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014
  2. ↑ James Benning in the Austrian Film Museum
  3. ↑ Catalog for documenta 6. Volume 2, p. 199: Photography, film, video 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .
  4. ↑ Report on the film ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on 3sat.Retrieved March 13, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.3sat.de
  5. ^ Berlinale 2011: film data sheet Twenty Cigarettes. Accessed on February 27, 2011
  6. ↑ Berlinale 2020: Retrieved on February 23, 2020
  7. ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on August 21, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Benning, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American avant-garde filmmaker and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA