Item 4332 - It Wasn't Love

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ES OVNI RSC-4332

Title

It Wasn't Love

Date(s)

  • 2024 (Accumulation)
  • 1992 (Creation)

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Video

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Benning illustrates a lascivious encounter with a "bad girl," through the staging of gender and the interaction of Hollywood clichés: posing for the camera as the rebel, the platinum blonde, the gangster, the fifties crooner, and the "vamp" with heavy eyes. Poses with a cigarette, slow romantic dances, and fast-action heavy metal street shots drive the viewer through the story of the love affair. Benning's video goes beyond romantic fantasy, describing other facets of physical attraction including fear, violence, lust, guilt, and total excitement. As she herself says, "It wasn't love, but it was something..." It was an opportunity to feel glamorous, sexy, and famous, all at the same time.

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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: No; Online archive: No; Television: No

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copyright

Language of material

  • English

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    Llengua: English. Països: USA

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    images/ovni-2024/jiser-daidalos-tarragona/4332_itwasntlov.jpeg

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    Note

    comprat a Video Data Bank , novembre 24, copia arxiu, drets llibary       Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  

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    it-wasnt-love

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    ES_OVNI_1992_bensad002-it-wasnt-love

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    OVNI

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Language(s)

    • Catalan

    Script(s)

    • Latin

    Archivist's note

    NO ONLINE, es de VDB, per projeccions s'ha de pagar, sols copia per arxiu.   Hi ha subtitols en castella, el va fer joan per dimarts de video 24, canço del primers dies.

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