Sadie Benning Movies

A diverse program of films and videos by various artists who challenge conventional representations of gender, family and sexuality, curated by Tom...

Set to music by Bikini Kill (an all-girl band from Washington), Girl Power is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 90s....

Shot in black and white Super-8, this lyrical short follows a wandering, disengaged youth through grey afternoons. Features the hard-edged music of...

Benning gives a chronology of her crushes and kisses, tracing the development of her nascent sexuality.

The narration and intertitles describe the ultimate teenage fantasy road-trip: a female version of Bonnie and Clyde in love, in trouble, and...

When she was 16, Benning stopped going to high school for three weeks and stayed inside with her camera, her TV set, and a pile of dirty laundry....

Interpretation of Rita Mae Brown's groundbreaking lesbian coming-of-age novel Rubyfruit Jungle.

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...

The two-channel video departs from Benning’s earlier work, cutting together hundreds of the artist’s gouache drawings of urban...

Flat Is Beautiful is an experimental live-action cartoon using masks, animation, subtitles, drawings, and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic...

“Nicky is seven. His parents are older and meaner.” A Place Called Lovely references the types of violence individuals find in life, from...

Setting her pixelvision camera on herself and her room, Benning searches for a sense of identity and respect as a woman and a lesbian. Acting...

This music video for the band Julie Ruin, fronted by Kathleen Hanna, formerly of Bikini Kill, critiques the cynical music marketeers of corporate...

Sadie Benning's first film. A version of the teenage diary, Benning places her feelings of confusion and depression alongside grisly tales of...

An examination of the filmmaker's childhood, femininity and identity, incorporating home movies of the filmmaker as an infant.