It Wasn’t Love
It Wasn’t Love
dir. Sadie Benning
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USA
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1992
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19 min
Film presented in set: Queer Experiences of a Body. Block 1
venue
date
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KINOMUZEUM, MSN, screening room
2025-05-09
18:30
Benning illustrates an encounter with a “bad girl” through the gender posturing and genre interplay of Hollywood stereotypes. Cigarette poses, romantic slow dancing, and fast-action heavy metal street shots propel the viewer through the story of the love affair.
Benning illustrates a lustful encounter with a “bad girl,” through the gender posturing and genre interplay of Hollywood stereotypes: posing for the camera as the rebel, the platinum blonde, the gangster, the '50s crooner, and the heavy-lidded vamp. Cigarette poses, romantic slow dancing, and fast-action heavy metal street shots propel the viewer through the story of the love affair. Benning’s video goes farther than romantic fantasy, describing other facets of physical attraction including fear, violence, lust, guilt and total excitement. As she puts it, “It wasn’t love, but it was something...” It was a chance to feel glamorous, sexy and famous, all at the same time.
- duration:
- 19 min
- country / year of production:
- USA / 1992
- director:
- Sadie Benning
- cinematography:
- Sadie Benning
- production:
- Sadie Benning
- selected festivals and awards:
- 1992: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (LAFCA): Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
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