Information about director

James Benning

James Benning was born in 1942 in a working class family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An athletic scholarship enabled him graduate with a degree in mathematics. Benning graduated from film school at the age of 33 and over his subsequent 40-year career made over 25 feature-length documentary films. Since the 1980s, he has lived in California where he is a lecturer at the California Institute for the Arts.  

Selected filmography

1984 American Dreams: Lost and Found (dok. / doc.) 1991 North on Evers (dok. / doc.) 1998 UTOPIA (dok. / doc.) 2005 One Way Boogie Woogie (dok. / doc.) 2011 Faces (dok. / doc.) 2011 20 Papierosów / Twenty Cigarettes (dok. / doc.) 2011 Zmierzch / Nightfall (dok. / doc.) 2012 Stemple Pass (dok. / doc.) 2012 Easy Rider (dok. / doc.)