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… Her more recent work moves beyond the Pixelvision camera and into animation and film. We have just purchased her Retrospective from The Werner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, February 2004. Volumes 1-3 (work from 1989-2204)
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| Los Cartoneros, Michael McLean, short documentary, 2006 |
| Juanchi, a 21-year-old from a small town outside Buenos Aires, supports himself and his family by digging through trash. Six days a week, he roams the street of the Argentine capital in search of cardboard and other recyclables, hoping to sell his findings to a recycling depository.
Like thousands of Argentines, he is “un cartonero”, a cardboard collection. “Cartoneros” comprise part of the country’s booming informal economy, which swelled drastically following the 2001 economic collapse of the country. |
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