Benning, James, 1942-
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Name (Latin)
Benning, James, 1942-
Date of birth
1942-12-28
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Motion pictures
Occupation
Educators
Motion picture producers and directors
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF:
5380149198375374940006
Wikidata:
Q1680032
Library of congress:
no2008119343
OCoLC:
oca07852591
DLC:
no2008119343
Sources of Information
- James Benning, c2007:p. 242 (b. Dec. 28, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Wikipedia, 07-01-2013:(James Benning; b. 12/28/1942; independent filmmaker; MFA from University of Wisconsin where he had studied with David Bordwell; for the next four years he taught filmmaking at Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin, University of Oklahoma and the University of California San Diego; he worked exclusively in 16mm until the increasing obsolescence of the medium necessitated he convert to digital. His first digital film is Ruhr (2009), commissioned by Werner Ruzicka for the Duisburg-Filmwoche. Digital filmmaking allowed him to branch out in different directions including re-makes of Faces (2011) and Easy Rider (2012);his work has always traversed the film sphere and the art field, finding constituencies in both; made 16mm installations at Art Park (1977), the Walker Art Center (1978), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1980), and has recently created digital installations at Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, (2011), 21er Haus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna (2012), and Argos, Centrum Voor Kunst en Media, Brussels (2012); author of several book of poetry)
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Wikipedia description:
James Benning (born 1942) is an American independent filmmaker and educator. Over the course of his 40-year career Benning has made over twenty-five feature-length films that have shown in many different venues across the world. Since 1987, he has taught at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He is known as a minimalist filmmaker.
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