Used Innocence

1989 | 95 minutes | 5.8 ★ (4)

Used Innocence
  • Overview

    Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bembenek, aka "Bambi", former "Playboy bunny" turned cop, turned accused and convicted killer who disappeared after a daring escape from prison. The film shows the evolution of Benning's and Bembenek's relationship presented through their actual letters read in voice over which depict the filmmaker's curiosity with the subject as it evolves from intrigue to a love obsession.

  • Release Date

    22 February 1989

  • DirectingJames Benning
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

  • Stars

Videos

User Reviews

See more

More Like This

Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung

Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung

Experimental short made by Olivier Assayas for Fondation of Contemporary Art and starring Maggie Cheung.

See more
Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head

Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head

The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work...

See more
Lost Case

Lost Case

A completely new story based on existing footage from the series Columbo.

See more
Maniac Summer

Maniac Summer

Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with...

See more
Genova Genova

Genova Genova

A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills...

See more
Spectrum

Spectrum

A 1963 timelapse recording shows the effects of air pollution during an entire day on Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles. A machine interpretation of...

See more
Closed Beaches

Closed Beaches

Beaches are closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the middle class must survive the tropicals.

See more
Window

Window

"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a...

See more
She Had Her Gun All Ready

She Had Her Gun All Ready

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the...

See more
Feeler

Feeler

16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Krakow, Sidney, Portland, Napa...

See more
Dilema I: Burundanga Boricua

Dilema I: Burundanga Boricua

Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree...

See more
The Day When...

The Day When...

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously...

See more
Something New to Die for

Something New to Die for

Portrait of The Church of the SubGenius in scratch, which means high speed cutting, media manipulation. Contains clips from the Arise, the...

See more
Threshold

Threshold

Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as...

See more
Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts

Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts

Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations On the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imaginary unconscious minds of...

See more
Untitled (Pink Dot)

Untitled (Pink Dot)

In Untitled (Pink Dot), Murata transforms footage from the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood (1982) into a morass of seething electronic...

See more
Carnet de identidad

Carnet de identidad

Shoot Me

Shoot Me

The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, has been living in exile in Germany for four years. When she...

See more
The Five Obstructions

The Five Obstructions

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different...

See more
One Second in Montreal

One Second in Montreal

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

See more