James Benning
DirectingTotal Credits
112
Acting
17
First Credit
1971
Latest Credit
2026

The United States of America
Actor · Director
1975

American Dreams (Lost and Found)
Director
1984

El Valley Centro
Director
2000

Landscape Suicide
Director · Writer · Director of Photography · Producer · Editor
1987

Ten Skies
Director · Producer
2004

RR
Director
2007

13 Lakes
Director
2004

Small Roads
Director
2011

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later
Director
2005

Ruhr
Director · Editor · Sound Editor · Director of Photography · Writer
2009

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Self
2013

One Way Boogie Woogie
Director · Writer
1977

Deseret
Director
1996

BNSF
Director
2013

She Dies Tomorrow
Leatherman
2020

8½ x 11
Director
1974
3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording
Director
1975

Fire & Rain
Director
2009
Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound?
Director
1971

James Benning: Circling the Image
Himself
2003

Chicago Loop
Director
1976

Allensworth
Director · Producer
2022

Him and Me
Director
1982

glory
Director
2018

9-1-75
Director
1975

North on Evers
Director
1992

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Director · Writer
1979

Stemple Pass
Ted Kaczynski (voice) · Director · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography
2012

One Way Boogie Woogie
Director
2012

Casting a Glance
Director · Writer · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography
2007
Lunch Break
Editor
2008

11 x 14
Director · Editor · Producer · Writer · Director of Photography
1977

Pig Iron
Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography
2010

Coming to Terms
The Father
2013

O Panama
Editor · Sound · Director of Photography · Director
1985

Utopia
Director
1998

Two Cabins
Director
2011

Sogobi
Director
2002

Easy Rider
Director · Director of Photography · Writer · Producer · Editor
2012

Los
Director
2001

Water Spell
Thanks
2007

Four Corners
Narrator · Director
1997

Nightfall
Director
2012

Used Innocence
(voice) · Director · Writer
1989

Spring Equinox
Director
2016

Fall Equinox
Director
2016

Little Boy
Director
2025

YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls
Director
2011

Measuring Change
Director
2016

Michigan Avenue
Director
1974

The United States of America
Director · Writer
2022

Santa Teresa & Other Stories
Thanks
2015

Natural History
Director
2014

I-94
Director
1974

L. Cohen
Himself · Director
2018
Faces 1973
Director
2010

After Warhol
Director
2011

Two Moons
Director
2019

Readers
Director
2017

Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
Actor · Thanks
1989