Benita Raphan

[2] She was known for directing short documentary films about "eccentric and unusual minds", including John Nash, Buckminster Fuller, Edwin Land and Emily Dickinson.

[1] She spent 10 years in Paris as a graphic designer for various fashion companies and came back to New York in mid-1990s.

[1] She taught at the School of Visual Arts for the last 15 years of her life.

[3] Her films have been bought for the collections of the British Film & Video Artists' Film Study Collection and the Walker Art Center, and her design collages are in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

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