Filmmakers
Sadie Benning
Birth: April 11, 1973 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Official Website: None
Major Works: Flat is Beautiful (1998)
German Song (1995)
The Judy Spots (1995)
Girlpower (1992)
It Wasn’t Love (1992)
A Place Called Lovely (1991)
If Every Girl Had a Diary (1990)
Jollies (1990)
Me and Rubyfruit (1990)
Living Inside (1989)
A New Year (1989)
Notes: Started making films at age 15 with a Pixelvision camera.
Co-founded the band Le Tigre with Kathleen Hannah and Johanna Fateman.
Father is experimental filmmaker James Benning.
Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Senses of Cinema: Profile
Bright Lights Film Journal: Profile
Video Data Bank: Bio
Wikipedia: Bio and info
Video: None
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[...] Godard, Miranda July and Roman Coppola. But there are also films by underground filmmakers like Sadie Benning, Matt McCormick, Brian Butler and the king of underground film, Jonas Mekas. And there’s a [...]
[...] and Kenneth Anger; a William Wegman retrospective; and a block devoted to Riot Grrrl cinema by Sadie Benning and Miranda [...]
[...] to, and out-performs, the actual actress (16mm). Jollies is a documentary by a 15 year old Sadie Benning about her early sexual experiences. It was created on a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera gifted to [...]