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Flat Is Beautiful

Sadie Benning, Flat Is Beautiful, 1998. Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org.

  • Sadie Benning, Flat Is Beautiful, 1998. Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org.

  • Sat, May 21, 2016
    5pm
    (This event has already happened.)

    Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
    1212 E 59th St
    Chicago, IL 60637
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    free, no booking required

    Artist Sadie Benning’s experimental live-action cartoon uses masks, animation, subtitles, drawings, and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic life of an androgynous eleven-year-old. Growing up in a working class neighborhood with her single mother and gay roommate, the protagonist confronts the loneliness of living between masculine and feminine in a culture obsessed with defining gender difference.

    Sadie Benning, 1998. Black & white; 50 min.

    Presented in partnership with Doc Films.

    Please note: the time of this event has changed from the previously published 2pm

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