Sadie Benning: Sometimes Benning uses written words to communicate ideas whether it is about her neighbors, her friends, or herself. She poses questions. The videos also seem to function as Benning's confessions - confessions about herself, such as admitting to skipping school, kissing boys, kissing girls. She uses a lot of close up shots, mostly of her face to include herself into the video. Is she filming herself? That would mean that she is both filming and being filmed at the same time (sorry Bruss). Benning enhances her autobiographical videos with a certain amount of shock value. Yet, there is also some humor and insight involved. I liked Benning's quote: When you are alone, you know yourself for you and not because you are with someone (paraphrase).
Fatimah Tobing Rony: Her film, On Cannibalism, is an interesting critique on the social sciences and their practices of collecting and "displaying" subjects from other cultures. While Rony focuses on her mother's ancestry, does this mean that the film is "autobiographical"? It is not an autobiography, but because her mother's ancestry is a part of her own, is this enough to make it "autobiographical"?
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