Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 3

Sadie Benning

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Consumer culture, Feminism, LGBTQ, Pixelvision, Videoworks

Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 3

A collection of three remarkable works by Sadie Benning, produced between 1995 and 1998, including German Song, The Judy Spots, and Flat is Beautiful. Shot in black and white Super-8 film, German Song muses on a disengaged youth and grey afternoons spent wandering, and features the hard-edged music of Come, an alternative band from Boston.

The Judy Spots is a tape composed of five episodes featuring Judy, a teenage girl puppet made of papier maché as she plays in a band, works at a fast food restaurant, shops at the mall, and feels scared at night.

Flat is Beautiful is an experimental, live-action cartoon narrative using masks, animation, subtitles, drawings, and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic life of an androgynous eleven year-old girl. Growing up in an working class neighborhood with her single mother and gay roommate, Taylor confronts the loneliness of living between masculine and feminine in a culture obsessed with defining gender difference. Shifting between black and white film and grainy pixelvision video, Flat is Beautiful explores the internal and external worlds of sad people.

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Sadie Benning

German Song

1995| 00:05:50

Shot in black and white Super 8, this lyrical short follows a wandering, disengaged youth through grey afternoons. German Song features the hard-edged music of Come, an alternative band from Boston.…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Experimental Film, Feminism, LGBTQ, Music, Sexuality, Youth/Childhood

Sadie Benning

The Judy Spots

1995| 00:12:50

These five short videos introduce Judy, a paper maché puppet who ruminates on her position in society. Like Judy, of the famous Punch and Judy puppet duo, Benning’s Judy seems to experience the world…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Animation, Feminism, LGBTQ, Music, Sexuality, Youth/Childhood

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.…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, LGBTQ, Pixelvision, Sexuality, Youth/Childhood