Sadie Benning has been a cause celebre in the queer community for almost a decade.Born in 1973 to a filmmaker father and an artist mother, she began making short films at age 15 and two years later came out as a lesbian.An iconoclast even as a teen, she employed the infamous Pixelvision camera in most of her early work and continues to use it.For the uninitiated, Pixelvision was a kiddie camcorder from the late 1980s that sold for $100. Few kids bought them, but artists and filmmakers did, seeing fresh possibilities in the lowresolution format that gave everything an enticingly vague, pixelated look. Rumor has it they now sell for as high as $1,000, though one appeared recently on the online auction house eBay for around $300.

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