Sadie Benning
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Biography: Sadie Benning is an American visual artist, who works in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound. Benning explores a variety of themes including surveillance, gender, ambiguity, transgression, play, intimacy, and identity.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birthday: April 11, 1973
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Gender: Male
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It Wasn't Love
Overview: The narration and intertitles describe the ultimate teenage fantasy road-trip: a female version of Bonnie and Clyde in love, in trouble, and unstoppable. With dreams of freedom, a life of crime, and the glamour of Hollywood, the film depicts the ultimate wish list of the lesbian bad girl whose life is not only constrained by school and parents, but also by the fear of a world that cannot tolerate her difference.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-10
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A Place Called Lovely
Overview: “Nicky is seven. His parents are older and meaner.” A Place Called Lovely references the types of violence individuals find in life, from actual beatings, accidents and murders, to the more insidious violence of lies, social expectations, and betrayed faith. Benning collects images of this socially-pervasive violence from a variety of sources, tracing events from childhood: movies, tabloids, children's games (like mumbledy-peg), personal experiences, and those of others. Throughout, Benning uses small toys as props and examples—handling and controlling them the way we are, in turn, controlled by larger violent forces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Girl Power
Overview: Set to music by Bikini Kill (an all-girl band from Washington), Girl Power is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 90s. Benning relates her personal rebellion against school, family, and female stereotypes as a story of personal freedom, telling how she used to model like Matt Dillon and skip school to have adventures alone. Informed by the underground “riot grrrl” movement, this tape transforms the image politics of female youth, rejecting traditional passivity and polite compliance in favor of radical independence and a self-determined sexual identity.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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A New Year
Overview: Sadie Benning's first film. A version of the teenage diary, Benning places her feelings of confusion and depression alongside grisly tales of tabloid headlines and brutal events in her neighborhood.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Living Inside
Overview: When she was 16, Benning stopped going to high school for three weeks and stayed inside with her camera, her TV set, and a pile of dirty laundry. Living Inside mirrors her psyche during this time. With the image breaking up between edits, the rough quality of this early tape captures Benning’s sense of isolation and sadness, her retreat from the world.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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If Every Girl Had a Diary
Overview: Setting her pixelvision camera on herself and her room, Benning searches for a sense of identity and respect as a woman and a lesbian. Acting alternately as confessor and accuser, the camera captures Benning’s anger and frustration at feeling trapped by social prejudices.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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North on Evers
Overview: In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, and disturbing portrait of contemporary America. In many ways, this recent film is a departure of Benning’s earlier films which are characterized, at times, by extremely long, carefully planned takes and a minimal narrative approach. In NORTH ON EVERS, the shots are kept short with a narrative that is direct and detailed, like a diary or a long series of postcards to a friend. What this work shares with the other films is a dry wit and a deep interest in the American social landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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White Trash Girl
Overview: A woman from poor upbringing grows up to be the leader of a group of extremely rugged individuals.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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