Girl Power

Girl power didn't necessarily strike me as "the perfect name" for Sadie Benning's short autobiographical film. The film depicts Benning's adolescent and childhood years as she grew up learning no fear and little reality in a home that seems cold and meaningless for her as a youth. The film strikes me as a reaction and tribute to the one thing she had to rely on as she grew up. the TV. Benning's film contains many pieces of footage that would have effected her as she grew up. Even her own imaginative world that she describes is built off of the things and people she would view on television. The style or look of the film also strikes me as a tribute to an older b&w television set she may once have watched. I do believe that after editing her film together she recorded it off of a television set to give it a fuzzy analog television feel. Benning's girl power is nothing more than the imagination of one girl who is hooked on the boob tube.