{"id":7134,"title":"James Benning","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/james-benning","version":"13f171fef516d92b6a91454ac928e30366794727f29cd5224859bb9f46225fd7","modified":"2011-06-17T23:59:18+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"James","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Benning","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022James Benning.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/james-benning.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7134.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1163},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":601}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"James Benning has been one of the outstanding exponents of the structural film since the mid-1970s. His artistic position has been strongly influenced by mathematics and by the creativity of mathematical thinking. Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman selected Benning\u0027s 11 X 14 as one of the top ten films of the 1970s, stating that it \u0022points toward the creation of a new, nonliterary but populist cinema.\u0022 In his previous work AMERICAN DREAMS, Benning places his collection of Hank Aaron memorabilia alongside the disturbed writings of Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace. LANDSCAPE SUICIDE investigates two famous murders by looking to the landscapes in which they occurred. Upon moving to California in the 1990s, the relationship between landscape and people became his central theme--beginning with EL VALLEY CENTRO, a look at the agricultural heartland of California, followed by LOS, examining the mostly manmade landscape of the city of Los Angeles. The final film in his \u0022California Trilogy\u0022 is SOGOBI, a passionate and beautiful look at California\u0027s wilderness. Benning currently teaches filmmaking at the California Institute for the Arts.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1163,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}