Sadie Benning - Video Works Vol.1-2 (1989-92)

[trep]

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Sadie Benning is a lesbian videomaker who began making videos when she was 15 years old, using a Fisher Price Pixelvision toy camera. Benning's early works were made in the privacy of her childhood bedroom, using scrawled and handwritten text from diary entries to record thoughts and images that reveal the longings and complexities of a developing identity. Evoking in turn playful seduction and painful honesty, Benning’s floating, close-up camera functions as a witness to her intimate revelations, and as an accomplice in defining her evocative experimental form. Her work emerges from a place half-innocent and half-adult—with all the honesty, humor, and desperation of a personality just coming into self-awareness, trapped and uneasy. Her more recent work moves beyond the Pixelvision camera and into animation and film.
( http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?BENNINGS )


"Film will only become art when the materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper" -Jean Cocteau
"Some little fat girl in Ohio is going to make a beautiful movie with her father's camcorder...." - Francis Ford Coppola, Hearts of Darkness.

While I don't agree with the Cocteau quote, many people feel that the PXL-2000, the formal name for the camera that produces the Pixelvision format, has been the camera that most closely fulfilled Cocteau's thesis. Articles have been written that cite the Coppola quote and Sadie Benning as the little girl that fulfills that idea.
( http://www.michaeloreilly.com/pixelpage.html )


Sadie Benning is an American video maker and musician who has made some of the most beautiful, lo-fi, funny and honest videos I’ve ever seen. She started making videos at fifteen when she was given a Pixel Vision toy camera. These cameras record onto audiotape and give a black and white, shimmery, pixelated, dreamy look. Benning’s videos, made throughout her teens, show her developing identity as a lesbian through toys, handwritten text, costume and music.
( http://sparror.cubecinema.com/independe ... einfo.html )

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NOTE: Go here for a technical overview of the pixelvision camera these shorts were shot with. Be aware that they are pixellated ("Less than 100 lines of resolution with the image area."). There are also huge black bars that's what they call the "frame within a frame" look of pixelvision movies... I couldn't crop them as the central picture moves quite a lot. I inverse telecined it, but with such noisy input the filter works just so much; I have NOT added deinterlacing as experiments showed it to add unaccettable blur. I've not rescaled it, so as not to lose quality; if your player is able to read the mpeg4 header that sets the aspect it will automatically scale it to 4:3, else you have to set the aspect by hand. I did my best but it was an hairy one...


Sadie Benning - Video Works Vol.1-2 - 1989-1992.avi

[LiaKit]

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Clicked right away!

Will we ever read things like...

Sadie Benning is a straight videomaker who began making videos...

or...

...Her videos, made throughout her teens, show her developing identity as an heterosexual woman through toys, handwritten text, costume and music.

???

I bet we won't...!

Thanks a lot, Trep.

[lapsus]

Cuando pueda lo pincho! Thanks Trep.

Por cierto hace un tiempo en este HILO Salió el tema de la pixelvision. Os copio lo que allí expliqué pues este post le va como anillo al dedo.

Que por cierto esto me ha recordado mucho a una cosa que oí hace unos meses en una conferencia: se trataba de artistas que habían usado para sus videos una camara que salio a mediados de los ochenta, de la marca Fisher Price que usaba un método sencillísimo de grabación sobre las ya desfasadas cintas de audio (si esas de 60, 90 etc....). Grababa en B/N en una resolución malíssima (aunque mejor que la Game Boy) Y en una cinta de 90 cabían unos 10 minutos de grabación de video y audio.
Lo cierto es que me encantó la idea, pero hasta ver este post no me decidí a buscar información sobre el tema (Hay hasta festivales dedicados a estos aparatitos, que por cierto fueron retirados rapidamente del mercado- quizás temían por las cámaras domésticas de mayor cálidad).

En el Sonar del 96 pasaron esto:

"BIG PIXEL THEORY
Selección de Eric Saks sobre trabajos hechos con la cámara de juguete Pixelvision 2000 - 82'
La empresa de juguetes Fisher Price lanzó una videocámara de baja definición compuesta por un mecanismo simple que incluye un micrófono de condensador y un CCD que produce imágenes sobre una cassette. De la asociación entre intrépidos camera-kids de ocho años y artistas gráficos como Eric Saks nace el proyecto The Big Pixel Theory."

Por cierto si alguien encuentra el elink al film NADJA de 1994 del director Michael Almereyda (que produjo David Lynch) sería un detalle, en esa película se usa la cámara en cuestión para mostrar la visión vampirizada de uno de los personajes en las escenas más violentas (al menos es lo que leí por allí).
Del mismo director y tambien con la cámara:
Another Girl Another Planet (Alguien la tiene???)

http://screenedge.com/shop/search.asp?s ... =Almereyda#

O una versión de Hamlet también rodada con la PXL 2000.
http://www.braidwood.net/films/hamlet/index.html (en teoria se puede descargar el trailer).

Os pongo unas imágenes del bicho este:
Así se veía:

Y así es el trasto un poquillo modificado:

Y para acabar el monográfico: unos links a páginas interesantes:
http://www.michaeloreilly.com/pixelpage.html (cuestiones técnicas)
http://elvis.rowan.edu/~cassidy/pixel/ (Pixel Vision Home Page)

Siento el rollazo pero es que realmente me gustó el tema, y esta si que molaría comprársela!!

Ha pasado un tiempo y Nadja apareció:
Nadja.Dvdrip.avi
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Saludos!

[cacaodao2]

Hola,

ayudanos, no hay fuentes por algunas parte del file Sadie Benning's Video Work

Alguien puede ponerle on line otra vez ?

Gracias

[trep]

Another Girl Another Planet (Alguien la tiene???)

http://screenedge.com/shop/search.asp?s ... =Almereyda#

On this same thread on FH ( http://www.fileheaven.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31506 ) Chiefy offered to rip Another Girl Another Planet and other Almereydas if there is enough interest in them... so, make your voices be heard!

[by_MaRio]

I'm on it, looks very interesting,
thanks a lot, Trep

[antmv]

Desperately looking for sources for this link... anyone has it and can put it available for a couple of weeks, please????