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 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 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 desperation of a personality just coming into self-awareness, trapped and uneasy. Her more recent work moves beyond the Pixelvision camera and into animation and film.
Sadie Benning is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Titles by Sadie Benning:
Aerobicide - Julie Ruin 
Flat is Beautiful
German Song
Girl Power
If Every Girl Had a Diary
It Wasn't Love
Jollies
The Judy Spots
Living Inside
Me and Rubyfruit
A New Year
A Place Called Lovely
Work by Sadie Benning also appears on:
Anthology: Frames of Reference: Reflections on Media
Compilation: Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 1
Compilation: Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 2
Compilation: Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 3
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