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little boy

Forum 2025
© James Benning, 2025. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
“A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy’s point of view. A companion to American Dreams (lost and found) (1984)” – James Benning
by James Benning (Director)
with Johnan Jahromi, Alessandro Streccioni, Yusef Ferguson, Yuan Gao, Nelson De Los Santos, Calum Walter, Nathan Meier, James Benning USA 2025 English 74' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

With

  • Johnan Jahromi
  • Alessandro Streccioni
  • Yusef Ferguson
  • Yuan Gao
  • Nelson De Los Santos
  • Calum Walter
  • Nathan Meier
  • James Benning

Crew

Director James Benning

Photos

James Benning

© Sharon-Lockhart

Born in 1942 in Milwaukee, USA, James Benning completed a degree in film studies in the 1970s and has been making films and creating numerous installations since 1972. Benning has been a frequent guest at the Forum and Forum Expanded since 1977, most recently with Allensworth in 2022.

Filmography (selection)

1977 11 x 14; 83 min., Berlinale Forum 1977 & 2018 1983 American Dreams (lost and found); 56 min. 1986 Landscape Suicide; 95 min., Berlinale Forum 1987 1997 Four Corners; 80 min., Berlinale Forum 1998 2000 Los; 90 min., Berlinale Forum 2002 2002 Sogobi; 90 min., Berlinale Forum 2002 2004 13 Lakes; 133 min., Berlinale Forum 2005 · Ten Skies; 101 min., Berlinale Forum 2005 2005 One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later; 120 min., Berlinale Forum 2006 2007 RR; 110 min., Berlinale Forum 2008 2009 Ruhr; 121 min. 2010 John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971; 71 min. 2011 Faces; 135 min. · Milwaukee/Duisburg; installation, Berlinale Forum Expanded 2011 · Twenty Cigarettes; 99 min., Berlinale Forum 2011 · Small Roads; 103 min. 2012 Nightfall; 98 min. · Stemple Pass; 121 min., Berlinale Forum 2013 · Easy Rider; 95 min. · One Way Boogie Woogie 2012; 90 min. · BNSF; 194 min. 2014 Natural History; 77 min. · Farocki; 77 min. · Concord Woods; 121 min. 2015 American Dreams; 85 min. 2017 Untitled Fragments; 75 min., video installation, Berlinale Forum Expanded 2017 2018 L. Cohen; 45 min., video installation, Berlinale Forum Expanded 2018 2019 Maggie’s Farm; 84 min., Berlinale Forum 2022 United States of America; 98 min., Berlinale Forum · Allensworth; 65 min. 2025 little boy

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025