Girl Power

Sadie Benning

1992 | 00:15:00 | United States | English | B&W | Mono |

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Diary, Feminism, LGBTQ, Pixelvision, Sexuality

Set to music by Bikini Kill (an all-girl band from Washington), Sadie Benning's Girl Power is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 1990s. 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.

Spanish subtitled version available.

This title is also available on Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 2.

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Exhibitions + Festivals

Dallas Video Festival, 1993

Inside Out (Canada), 1993

 

WRO Videoart Biennale, 1999