Sadie Benning

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Sadie Benning is a video maker, visual artist, and musician.

She first made her name in the early 1990s as a teenage video maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera, which recorded pixellated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The majority of her shorts deal with her experiences in finding and refining her identity as a lesbian. Her work was twice included in the Whitney Biennial.

Later in the decade, she joined Le Tigre, the feminist post-punk band whose members include ex-Bikini Kill singer/guitarist Kathleen Hanna and zinester Johanna Fateman. She has since left the band.

Her father is experimental filmmaker James Benning.

[edit] External links

• Sadie Benning at the Internet Movie Database
• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database