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The videos of Sadie Benning / Video Data Bank presents.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.E96 V544 1993 v.2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benning, Sadie, 1973-.
- Benning, Sadie.
- Video art--United States.
- Video art.
- Performance art--United States.
- Performance art.
- United States.
- Lesbianism--United States.
- Lesbianism.
- Experimental films.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- videocassettes : sound + sil., black and white with color sequences ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Videos by Sadie Benning
- Distributor's title: Videoworks of Sadie Benning
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Video Data Bank, 1993.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A compilation of Sadie Benning's video works produced between 1989 and. Sadie Benning is a lesbian videomaker who began making videos when she was 15 years old using a Fisher-Price Pixelvision toy camera. Benning's early works were made in the privacy of her childhood bedroom, using scrawled and handwritten text from diary entries to record the thoughts and images that reveal the longings and complexities of a developing identity. Evoking in turn playful seduction and painful honesty, Benning's floating, close-up camera functions as a witness to her intimate diaristic revelations and as an accomplice in defining her evocative experimental form. Her work emerges from a place half-innocent and half-adult, with all the honesty, humor, and real desperation of a personality trapped and uncomfortable, just coming to self-awareness. Her more recent work moves beyond the pixelvision camera into animation and film.
- Contents:
- v. 1. A new year (1989, 6 min.). Living inside (1989, 5 min.). Me and Rubyfruit (1989, 5 min.). If every girl had a diary (1990, 9 min.). Jollies (1990, 11 min.)
- v. 2. A place called lovely (1991, 14 min.). It wasn't love (1992, 20 min.). Girlpower (1992, 15 min.)
- v. 3. German song (1998, 6 min.). Judy spots (1995, 12 min.). Flat is beautiful (1998, 50 min.)
- Participant:
- Pricipal performer, Sadie Benning; some voiceover narration by Sadie Benning.
- Notes:
- Videocassette release of short videos produced beginning in 1989, some of which have been released as short motion pictures.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Contains:
- Place called lovely.
- It wasn't love.
- Girlpower.
- OCLC:
- 56159581
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