As part of the Gallery’s June programme of events for Sometimes Always, the AGNS in collaboration with the Centre for Art Tapes will feature the short films of Sadie Benning. Benning came to prominence in the late-eighties and early-nineties when she was a teenage filmmaker working in Milwaukee. Her first works, made as early as age fifteen, were shot on a Fisher-Price Pixel Vision camera, which recorded video on standard audio cassette tapes. In these works, Benning addresses the angst-ridden transition into adulthood by combining performance, experimental narrative, drawing and collaged music. Her topics include - among others - gender, adolescence and sexuality. Sometimes Always and the programming accompanying the exhibition is being presented concurrently with Sound Bytes, a city-wide audio art festival being held in Halifax from May to June 2009.

Thursday, June 11 8:00 pm @ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 1, a compilation of five early works by Benning (total running time 35 min.): If Every Girl Had a Diary; Jollies; Living Inside; Me and Rubyfruit; A New Year.

Thursday, June 18 9:00 pm @ CBC Radio Room, Sackville St
Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 2, a compilation including the 1992 Pixelvision works (total running time 49 min.): A Place Called Lovely; It Wasn’t Love; Girl Power