The camera as a confidante and chronicler reflecting personal experiences and recording them for an imagined vis-à-vis. In If Every Girl Had a Diary, the author criticizes the society in which she tries to live as a young queer woman and which she simultaneously seeks to resist. Hand Movie is a minimalistic performance on the sick bed, an ordinary dance in an exceptional state. DANNY is based on video material of a man who, after being diagnosed with leukemia, decides to videotape his life. In the face of his own fragility, his dialogs with the camera vacillate between disarming openness and self-assured staging. 

SADIE BENNING, If Every Girl Had A Diary, US 1990, s/w, digital, 8' (Engl. OF)

YVONNE RAINER, Hand Movie, US 1996, s/w, digital, 5' (stumm)

AARON ZEGHERS & LEWIS BENNETT, DANNY, CA 1993/2019, Farbe, digital, 60' (Engl. OF, Engl. UT)