“Benita” (In Production)
A film by Alan Berliner on the life and unfinished work of the late Benita Raphan.
At the time of her death, Benita was working on a film to be titled An Interesting Question, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship-funded project which was to be a deep-dive into her life-long fascination with the inner life of dogs.
“Benita’s death made me realize that there was so much I didn’t know about her, so much I never asked, but also so much I never knew to ask. In the end, one way or another, I suppose I will be completing An Interesting Question after all. It just might not be the question Benita or I originally had in mind. That will be for the viewer to answer.”
