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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.
Total trailers found: 17
01 January 1989
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.
01 January 1990
Setting her pixelvision camera on herself and her room, Benning searches for a sense of identity and respect as a woman and a lesbian.
01 January 1991
“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.
01 January 1995
Shot in black and white Super-8, this lyrical short follows a wandering, disengaged youth through grey afternoons.
19 February 1998
This music video for the band Julie Ruin, fronted by Kathleen Hanna, formerly of Bikini Kill, critiques the cynical music marketeers of corporate America.
04 January 1989
Interpretation of Rita Mae Brown's groundbreaking lesbian coming-of-age novel Rubyfruit Jungle.
01 January 1989
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.
01 January 1995
These five short videos introduce Judy, a paper maché puppet who ruminates on her position in society.
31 December 1990
Benning gives a chronology of her crushes and kisses, tracing the development of her nascent sexuality.
01 January 2006
The two-channel video departs from Benning’s earlier work, cutting together hundreds of the artist’s gouache drawings of urban landscapes, figures, and abstractions.
01 January 1990
An examination of the filmmaker's childhood, femininity and identity, incorporating home movies of the filmmaker as an infant.
15 April 1992
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.
27 January 1992
In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.
01 January 1992
A diverse program of films and videos by various artists who challenge conventional representations of gender, family and sexuality, curated by Tom Kalin for Drift Distribution.
10 May 1992
The narration and intertitles describe the ultimate teenage fantasy road-trip: a female version of Bonnie and Clyde in love, in trouble, and unstoppable.
01 January 1995
A woman from poor upbringing grows up to be the leader of a group of extremely rugged individuals.
01 January 1998
Flat Is Beautiful is an experimental live-action cartoon using masks, animation, subtitles, drawings, and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic life of an androgynous eleven-year-old girl.
