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Jul 29, 2022 · Benning, born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1973, began making films in their bedroom at the age of 15. As the story goes, they had been gifted a Fisher Price PXL2000 by their filmmaker father. This toy camera recorded grungy sound and images to audio cassettes—Pixelvision!—and led to an imaginative, questioning body of video works that still ...
Benning creates experimental films and explores a variety of themes including surveillance, gender, ambiguity, transgression, play, intimacy, and identity. They became a known artist as a teenager, with their short films made with a PixelVision camera that have been described as "video diaries".
Suddenly, Benning became a pioneer of a new and rapidly popularizing genre of film: Pixelvision, as the videos were coined for their flat, pixelated quality. In Jollies (1990), by describing past sexual and romantic experiences, Benning recounts the path that led them to realize, “I was as queer as can be.”.
Jan 1, 2021 · Feminist Media Histories (2021) 7 (1): 40–60. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.40. Share. Tools. From 1989 to 1998, the artist Sadie Benning created nine video artworks using a Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camera, which records to audiocassette. The resulting video format is known as Pixelvision.
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Their more recent work moves beyond the Pixelvision camera and into animation, film and installation. Sadie Benning is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Available Titles by Sadie Benning. Title. Year. Runtime. Collection. Aerobicide - Julie Ruin.
Jan 31, 2022 · The early promise of Pixelvision, as pioneered by Sadie Benning’s video works, was that people would be able to make own images outside systems of control. It’s strange to think that much of the works’ aesthetic – from the short video and close-up monologue, to dramatic re-enactment and spliced appropriation of popular music and ...
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Artwork Details. Overview. Provenance. Title: Jollies. Artist: Sadie Benning (American, born Milwaukee, 1973) Date: 1990. Medium: Single-channel digital video, transferred from Pixelvision tape, black-and-white, sound, 11 min. Classification: Variable Media.
