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The United States Of America (film)
''The United States of America'' is a 1975 film by James Benning (film director), James Benning and Bette Gordon. Summary A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal spaces about two travelers in their car alongside the relationships to changes in America (political, social and geographical) from New York to Los Angeles. Legacy The Criterion Collection, Criterion Channel describes it as "one of the major works of the Structuralist film theory, structuralist film movement of the 1970s". A remake of the film, also directed by Benning, premiered in 2022. See also *United States Bicentennial *Road movie References External links * *The United States of America ' on MUBI {{DEFAULTSORT:United States of America 1970s avant-garde and experimental films 1975 films Films directed by James Benning 1970s American films Films directed by Bette Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Benning (film Director)
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. Early life and education James Benning was born 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Benning played baseball for the first twenty years of his life. He earned an undergraduate and master's degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, which he attended on a baseball scholarship. Benning experienced a political awakening and racial consciousness during the late 1960s, participating in civil rights protests led by Father James Groppi in segregated Milwaukee. Benning dropped out of graduate school to forfeit his military deferment since his friends, who were mostly not in school, were being drafted and dying in Vietnam. Benning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |