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	:: Brisbane International Film Festival ::
		Benning has continued to work on 16mm film in preference to video because, he says, the latter ‘is still a different kind of image—it doesn't have grain in it'.
		Benning's approach is resistant to labels, although his work has variously been described as structuralist (or structural), formalist, and minimalist.
		It is to imply that Benning challenges the viewer who is conditioned by conventional film practice in which form is at the service of interpreting ‘the meaning of plots that the characters enact', to quote Scott McDonald.
	www.biff.com.au /biff_2004/news_resources/essays_3.asp (898 words)

	James Benning - Biography - Moviefone
		James Benning's early films fused the "structuralist" investigations into sound-image relationships of filmmakers like Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton with an interest in narrative and a deep sensitivity to color, light, and landscape.
		While his earliest films are mostly concerned with form and narrative, his work in the '80s began to introduce both personal subject matter and documentary elements, at the same time becoming increasingly concerned with the themes of history, memory, and death.
		After moving to California in the 1990s, Benning began, with the highly acclaimed Deseret, a series of experimental documentaries investigating the effects of history and politics on the American West.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/james-benning/81428/biography (380 words)

	James Benning's Art of Landscape: Ontological, Pedagogical, Sacrilegious
		If Benning shares their languid sense of rhythm, indeed, it would seem to be demanded not only by his subject matter, but further by what the director intends to accomplish in the film.
		To this, Benning quickly rejoined, glibly, that he is in fact not an environmentalist, as should be evident by the ten thousand miles he drove in the making of the film.
		The implication of this observation, certainly, distinguishes the director from environmentalist orthodoxy: to Benning, the environment is resilient, whereas it is its frailty that instructs environmentalist orthodoxy.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/james_benning.html (3204 words)

	Screens: James Benning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		James Benning is one of our country's top avant-garde filmmakers of the last 20 years.
		James is one of my filmmaking heroes, an independent artist in the purest sense of the word.
		James Benning will be on hand for a discussion afterward and the first recipient of the D. Montgomery Award will be announced.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue10/screens.benning.html (233 words)

	James Benning (cricketer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Graham Edward Benning (born 4 May 1983 in Mill Hill, London) is a Surrey cricketer.
		Benning played for the minor county team, Buckinghamshire, in 2001, in one Under-19 "Test" for England in 2002 and joined Surrey in 2003.
		Benning won the NBC Denis Compton Award for young players in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Benning_(cricketer) (124 words)

	Steve Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Since the early 1970s, James Benning has created a large and diverse body of film work dedicated to blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction; form and narrative.
		Working with issues of truth, narrative, space, landscape and time, Benning has functioned as a key transitional figure within the American avant-garde, elaborating on many of the themes of structural film and emerging as a leading figure in the "new narrative" movement of the 1980s.
		In all of these works, Benning demonstrates a rare attention to the material and textual nature of motion pictures and the inevitable processing of historical "evidence" through systems of representation.
	www.cinema.ucla.edu /visible/anderson.html (391 words)

	Canyon Cinema, Inc.
		It isn't necessary to know that Bremer was Benning's neighbor in Milwaukee or that the filmmaker counts among his greatest achievements pitching batting practice to the Milwaukee Braves in 1962.
		I would venture that Benning's filmmaking is directly connected to the sense of overload: he forces us to take in both the shots and the subtitles, the past and the present, the sounds and the images.
		This is a country defined by such overstimulation and excess, and one of the best things about Benning's narrative scrapbook is that it never allows us to imagine that either one of the texts is sufficient to encompass his subject's complexity.
	www.canyoncinema.com /B/Benning.html (1021 words)

	Program Note
		Benning has been one of American leading avant-garde film-makers for over 20 years, but remains barely known by the wider cinema-going public, especially abroadâ”partly because he doesn't allow his works to be available on video.
		Benning used to teach high school math, and a passion for such neat, symmetrical patterns is central to his work, for better and for worse; he apparently wants to give images, sounds, and certain verbal classifications the uncluttered purity of numbers and mathematical concepts.
		Benning's approach to a given terrain can stimulate a great deal of philosophical or religious reflection about order and design, and in some ways his current reluctance to attach text directly to his sounds and images—he explored its use in detail in his preceding four films—only increases this sort of reflection.
	www.movingimage.us /film_programs/program_notes/l/los.html (2028 words)

	Mount Holyoke College: Water Matters - Symposium Speakers
		James Benning is a filmmaker and professor at the California Institute of the Arts and Bard College.
		Benning is one of the outstanding filmmakers of the structural film since the mid-1970s.
		Benning’s unrelenting search for appropriate places and motifs and his relationship towards the landscape is clear in the work.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /omc/water/events/symp_bios.html (3417 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		Benning's early shorts are often tedious, though fascinating and immersive, exercises in self-indulgent posturing.
		Benning herself poses as various types of stereotypical masculinity and femininity: the rebel, the vamp, the biker, the bimbo.
		Benning displays a quick, attuned wit with these "spots", which also serve in leading up to her near-feature-length coup de grace, Flat is Beautiful (1998).
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue4/sadiebenning.html (1083 words)

	Neil Young's Film Lounge
		Fascinating documentary which follows James Benning as he travels from his California base to Utah, where he shoots one shot for his feature 13 Lakes at the Salton Sea.
		Though inevitably much less innovative and striking than Benning’s own remarkable films, Circling the Image is nevertheless an absorbing and invaluable introduction to an film-maker who, though almost unanimously revered by those who know his work, has a ludicrously low profile among even the more informed sections of the cinemagoing public.
		Benning also refuses to play the publicity game — the figure that emerges here is craggily engaging, but filled with monastic rigour and quiet devotion to his craft.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/circlingtheimage.html (215 words)

	Epinions.com - James Benning's "13 Lakes" (or I return!)
		I've read about American filmmaker James Benning for a good five or six years, without having a chance to see his work (aside from 2003 when his "California Trilogy" was playing in Ithaca, but I couldn't make it).
		Benning's film is structured in thirteen ten-minute pieces, pieced together by fl leader, of thirteen lakes throughout the United States.
		What we are allowed is not only a "realistic" sense of these lakes (Benning shoots very directly, splitting the frame in half with lake, horizon, and sky), but a surrealistic sense of time and place, which as cliche as it sounds, is nothing less than life itself.
	www.epinions.com /content_4440170628 (620 words)

	Talking About Seeing: A Conversation with James Benning
		Benning's consistent exploration of cinematic duration, his painstaking mapping out of a space over time, suggests that his work can be easily contextualised in the history of long take cinema, along with Straub-Huillet, Ophuls, Welles and others.
		Benning does not consider himself a structural filmmaker, believing he has “more to say” than those detached formalist experiments generally do, and explains this method of prolonged shots as a means to investigate place.
		Benning's appreciation of Robert Smithson's industrial landscapes is evident here, in the shots of the car yards, dozers and trucks, and in the signature shots of oil pumps, silos and industrial machinery.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/33/james_benning.html (5766 words)

	village voice > film > Three Seasons: pretty picture; Brakhage: doc in the house; Utopia: just deserts by J. Hoberman
		Benning has long been interested in the relationship between landscape and narrative; here he appropriates the audio from Richard Dindo's documentary Ernesto "Che" Guevara: The Bolivian Diaries (shown at Film Forum in 1996) as the accompaniment for a series of "empty" landscapes shot in and around Death Valley and the U.S.-Mexican border.
		Benning isn't the first avant-gardist to lift a ready-made soundtrack (Ken Jacobs used Ulmer's Black Cat to accompany one of his projection pieces), but, thanks to the Dindo documentary's romantic subject and Benning's underpopulated vistas, Utopia is predicated on a tangible absence.
		Benning's postscript attributes particular significance to his border landscape, but, reminding us that the original meaning of utopia is "nowhere," the point would have been made equally well with images of Berkeley or Disneyland.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9917/hoberman.php (1191 words)

	Deep End - 12 August 2004 - James Benning
		This is the belief of American avant garde filmmaker James Benning, whose films stand on the border between cinema and the art we see in galleries.
		For 30 years Benning, a former mathematician, has been making films which challenge the viewer to really focus with intense concentration on minute changes happening on screen.
		James Benning makes his films alone, with a 16ml Bolex camera and a Nagra tape recorder, and says it would offend him politically to spend more than $15,000 on a film.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/deepend/stories/2004/1174866.htm (245 words)

	James Benning (film director) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Benning (born in 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker.
		He is the son of German immigrants and studied film at the University of Wisconsin (1975).
		His daughter is experimental filmmaker and musician Sadie Benning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Benning_(film_director) (167 words)

	Benning Blitz not enough \|\| Surrey Cricket - Unofficial Surrey News and Views
		James Benning hit 189 not out, but it was not enough as Gloucester beat Surrey by two runs in the C and G trophy match at Bristol.
		However Benning and Saker reduced the deficit, to leave Surrey requiring eight from the last over and a tense finish was in stall.
		Benning’s score of 189 was the highest ever score for a Surrey batsman in one day cricket outside the Oval.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s72/st98875.htm (373 words)

	Sogobi
		Renowned experimental filmmaker, James Benning, will introduce a screening of Sogobi (2001, 90 minutes), the final full-length segment of the California Trilogy, his epic meditation on the regional landscape at 5 P.M. on Wednesday, February 5 at the Isla Vista Theater 1.
		The earlier films in Benning's triptych, El Valley Central (1999) and Los (2000) focus respectively on the agricultural belt of California's Central Valley and the city of Los Angeles.
		During the 80's Benning lived in New York producing work that dealt elliptically with history, memory and death: American Dreams (1984) juxtaposes baseball giant, Hank Aaron memorabilia against the disturbed writings of Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace.
	www.ihc.ucsb.edu /events/event_files/past/_winter03/sogobi (381 words)

	Movie-Vault.com :: Over 2000 Reviews and Counting...
		James Benning is one of America's leading abstract/nonnarrative/structuralist filmmakers.
		Los, as Benning made quite explicit before the screening, is the second part of a trilogy about California.
		I know nothing about academic theory, and little about Benning, since none of his work has been transferred to video; Benning fears for the quality of the picture (very well filmed on 16mm), and for possible alterations of the composition.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/fhidjxOEiLMEEuMV (375 words)

	Movietime - 15 August 2004 - James Benning
		American film maker James Benning has been making films for more than thirty years, and has never spent more than $15,000 on a film.
		Before he turned to film-making at 26, Benning was a political organiser, and then a mathematician.
		Two of James Benning's films: Grand Opera and Landscape Suicide are held in the National Film and Video Lending Collection.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/movietime/stories/2004/1176211.htm (205 words)

	Lambert Benning Family Name Genealogy
		Joan Florence Benning Barr (B. January 1, 1941) Married August 1961 James Barr III (B. ?) Four children James, Brett, Heather, and Stephanie.
		James "Sparky" Barr IV (B. July 4, 1962) Married September 8, 1990 Linda Elaine Smith Barr (B. ?) Three children Katlin, James, and Jennifer.
		James Bruce Bening (B. 1990) Wives Virginia (B. ?) and then Lois (B. ?) Three children with Virginia; Michael, Patricia, and Vicky.
	www.neiu.edu /~jabennin/me/gene.html (1672 words)

	STOCK CAR PIT PASS - Race News Without A Restrictor Plate
		James Hylton was born in 1934 in Gills County, Virginia.
		Three times James Hylton was runner up in the NASCAR championship race…twice to Richard Petty and once to David Pearson.
		It was quite a sight to see the No. 48 of James Hylton return to the track on the apron completing his career as these two youngsters raced for the checkered flag up in the racing groove.
	stockcarpitpass.com /inside20061018b.html (642 words)

	Filmmaker Magazine \| Web Articles: TORTURED LANDSCAPES
		Questioned about the uniform structure of the three films, Benning references the origins of filmmaking, when films were shot not to construct a story, but just to capture life itself.
		JAMES BENNING: This was pointed out to me at an early screening, but then I realized that the cemetery is such a loaded image.
		BENNING: No. I actually made that while I was living in New York, which is funny because when I lived in New York I found it hard to make films there.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /archives/online_features/tortured_landscapes.php (3357 words)

	UWM News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		MILWAUKEE—Celebrated Milwaukee-born experimental filmmaker James Benning returns to the city March 29-31 to share a new three-part film, “California Trilogy,” at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Benning will appear in person at the UWM screenings.
		Presented without a voiceover, the films generate visual tropes and thematic rhymes that allow the three parts of the film to function, for the viewer, like an unfinished jigsaw puzzle, images from throughout the trilogy accumulating into a singular and expansive portrait of California that resonates effectively with ecological, political, cultural, and historical insights.
		Benning’s portraits reveal what film critic Berenice Reynaud calls a “political geography”: “the clash between American landscape and a human presence that constantly changes, recreates, reproduces and pollutes it.”
	www.uwm.edu /News/PR/04.03/experimental_films.html (312 words)

	Brad Benning — Bruce Benningsdorf : ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Ivan Hugh Benning was born in Detroit, Michigan to the late Pastor Gasoway and Mattie Benning.
		James Benning, LA'78, of Middlesex, New Jersey, is a...
		Benning, Kourpias and Ristow are the nominees of the Series C Unions for election by the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page2968.aspx (1538 words)

	James Benning - Photo - NEW YORK - APRIL 25: James Benning, director of "13 Lakes", poses for a ... - Moviefone
		James Benning - Photo - NEW YORK - APRIL 25: James Benning, director of "13 Lakes", poses for a...
		NEW YORK - APRIL 25: James Benning, director of "13 Lakes", poses for a portrait during the Tribeca Film Festival at the Apple Store April 25, 2005 in New York City.
		James Benning photo of 'NEW YORK - APRIL 25: James Benning, director of "13 Lakes", poses for a...' on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/james-benning/81428/photos/james-benning-director-of-13-lakes-poses-for-a-portrait-during-the-tribeca/1335536 (116 words)

	James Benning Ten Skies
		Benning shot this companion piece to 13 Lakes in Val Verde, the small California mountain town where he lives.
		Born in 1942 in Milwaukee, James Benning first studied Mathematics, then switched to filmmaking after seeing Maya Deren’s landmark experimental film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).
		He is one of the major exponents of the “structural film” and the “landscape film,” having shown his work in international venues, such as the Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna and Sundance film festivals, and various museums around the world.
	www.lafilmforum.org /past/spring2005/2_6/2_6.html (266 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As a result of this neglect, James Benning may be better-known as the father of Pixelvision master Sadie Benning than as a filmmaker in his own right.
		While Benning may be an avant-garde filmmaker, his films are hardly devoid of stories, most of them having to do with American history.
		It's worth nothing that Benning's use of urban locales in ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE is equally impressive: he films factories and smokestacks with clear affection rather than dismissing them as decrepit wastelands.
	home.earthlink.net /~steevee/utopia.html (652 words)

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