Sadie Benning

Sadie Benning

52 (1973-04-11)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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.

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It Wasn't Love 1992 (4.4)

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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Jollies 1990 (3.3)

Benning gives a chronology of her crushes and kisses, tracing the development of her nascent sexuality.
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Girl Power 1992 (5.5)

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.
Sadie Bentley

Sadie Bentley

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Bikini Valley Car Wash 2020 (3)

Bikini Valley Car Wash is a comedy film about Amanda, a good girl who's obligations and responsibilities force her to turn to an unconventional solution.
Sadie Bennett

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N/A N/A (2.8)

A lesbian musician struggles to break her patterns of whirlwind romances while serving as the shoulder to lean on for a group of eclectic friends, who offer little in return.
Sadie Bennett

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The Great London Mystery 1920

A magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.