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At the age of fifteen, Sadie Benning (1973) started making videos with a Fisher Price toy camera. Since then she has created many diary like documents using this camera. She recorded the germination of her lesbian identity, her confusion and desires in an experimental, headstrong way. Since 1990, she has dedicated her work to 'Bad Girls Everywhere'. This video tells of the meeting with the most glamorous woman she had every seen. Sadie got into the car with her and they set off to Hollywood together. We never get to see this woman since just about all of the video is shot in Sadie's room. She tells the story using written texts, voice over, pieces of Hollywood films from the fifties and pop songs. The black and white images are raw with a lot of close ups of the maker herself. She uses the camera as if she is standing in front of a mirror: she tries various poses using all kinds of stereo types from the movies. The erotic encounter ends, not in Hollywood, but in a parking lot. Ultimately they needed no canned romanticism to reach great rapture.
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Lies Holtrop
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