| LC control no. | no2008119343 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Benning, James, 1942- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1942 |
| Place of birth | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
| Field of activity | Motion pictures |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors Educators |
| Found in | James Benning, c2007: p. 242 (b. Dec. 28, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Ten skies, 2021, ©2021: page 7 (James Benning, made a 16 mm sound film in 2004, ten 10-minute static takes of the sky) 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) Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 6, 2022: (James Benning, b. 1942 in in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an American independent filmmaker, film director and educator, he is known as a minimalist filmmaker) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning_(film_director)> |
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