James Benning has been making films and installations for over 40 years and has made a considerable contribution to American experimental cinema. His concerns with American culture have acquired a consistent and distinctive place in films such as 11 x 14 (1976), One-Way Boogie Woogie (1977), Landscape Suicide (1986), and North On Evers (1991). He worked primarily in 16mm film, but with the increasing obsolescence of that medium he gradually shifted to digital technologies in his later career, with Ruhr (2009) being the first film he made digitally. Benning also teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and Bard College.