5th(2003)
Girlpower
Sadie Benning
- USA
- 1992
- 15min
- Beta
- color
SYNOPSIS
Set to music by Bikini Kill, an all-girl band from Washington, Girlpower 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 go on adventures alone.
PROGRAM NOTE
Set to music by Bikini Kill, an all-girl band from Washington, Girlpower 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 go on adventures alone.
Director
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Sadie BenningSadie Benning
Born in 1973 in Wisconsin. Sadie Benning is a lesbian video artist who has created provocative work since she was 15 years old using a Pixelvision toy camera. Many of her video pieces are coming of age stories about her own experiences and longings as a young lesbian teenager. Evoking in turn playful seduction and painful honesty, Benning’s floating, close-up camera functions as her intimate revelations and definition of evocative experimental form. Her filmography includes Me & Rubyfruit (1989), Living Inside (1989), Jollies (1990), A Place Called Lovely (1991), It Wasn’t Love (1992), German Song (1995) and For Baby (2000).
Credit
- ProducerSadie Benning
- Screenwriter Sadie Benning
- Cinematography Sadie Benning
- Editor Sadie Benning
