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e"dd"weena o0 bentl is
an artist, event
organizer, and
trans health
educator based
physically in
chicago,
emotionally in
kansas city
mo, spiritually
in saturn’s
hexagon, and unfortunately in front of a computer screen. dd o0 bentl is also me, the writer of the words you’re currently reading.
when i was 8, i invented comics and cartoons with microsoft paint, mini-dv, paper,
a stapler, windows moviemaker, and eventually adobe premiere. everything is an extension of this singularity.
i love the decay of midwest infrastructure, the art of any child, the limitlessness of the video file, when the fireflies come out, when the words can't make sense of it all...
frolicking, prayer, my cat "flippy", asmr, pigs, noise, never giving up, a resonator guitar, smashing rocks, amaranth (color), irish folklore, spray paint, feeling the energy of every last molecule, listening to the beating heart, nourishing it, loving it, loving myself.
since 2020, i've been aggregating a multi-media anthology called "THIS IS MY DISASTER". with videos and comics, i'm creating portraits of life in an ever-imploding political dystopia called neo kansas city. some portraits are more literal, some more abstract. here are my favorites:
lesbian dogwood and the disaster life thereof
2023, 34'38", ms paint & adobe premiere
the mysterious lesbian dogwood is a nomadic homunculus ranger who wanders the barren and dilapidated wastelands of neo kansas city 2. they make friends, barely survive, and nothing really important happens.
WIP, ~30', ms paint & adobe premiere
a cult's ceremonial mass suicide awakens a dragon in jupiter's core, setting in motion the prophecy in which all human beings will turn into trees. k;i//, the cult leader's daughter, is the only person left who knows of the impending apocalypse. with 18 hours remaining until humanity's violent transformation, what's a girl to do?
2025, 19'03", mini-DV
a boy resides in a disintegrating digital hellcycle lasting 19 minutes. you'd be pissed about it, too.
koopalovr plays: super mario 64 episode 30
2021, 7'10", adobe creative suite
a despondent little cat mourns something lost, or perhaps something that was never there.
i also organize local & online video event in chicago, il. my current series is called...
S.Y.F. is free-submission & community centered. these fests are made to cultivate offline creative scenes, platform marginalized voices, and encourage artists without resources or formal training to embrace experimentation as a vehicle for telling their stories.
here is where you can read the full Principles of Finger Smashing.
i was also the show runner for BEAF Experimental Animation Festival, an online series dedicated to many of the same principles.
if you wish to support what i do, you can donate via the following websites:
to keep up with my work, please sign up for my e-mail newsletter through the form at the very bottom of this page. it is the most interesting way to stay connected with my whereabouts! you can also send me an e-mail if you want to get in touch for any reason at all. i love e-mail!
this website is the only real way to peruse my art over the 'net. there is probably an account of mine on some horrible website somewhere else if you dig for long enough... but just know whatever you're doing is Wrong.
thank you for reading about my little world, it means a lot! this is my home and i hope you feel good spending time in it.