Jennifer Reeder

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Jennifer Reeder at the Vienna Independent Shorts 2014 in the Stadtkino in the Künstlerhaus Wien .

Jennifer Reeder (* 1971 in Ohio ) is an American video maker, film director and screenwriter .

Life

Reeder grew up in Columbus (Ohio) . She studied at the Ohio State University before moving to Chicago moved to inspired by feminist artists such as Maya Deren or Martha Rosler video at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to study. During her studies she worked for the video database. In 1996, she graduated from MFA with the video White Trash Girl # 1 - The Devil Inside . In the video, Reeder plays the anti-superhero White Trash Girl, who uses her gang to tear misogynistic men apart from outsiders . Aesthetically oriented towards low-budget trash films , the video torpedoes prevailing gender and class relationships and at the same time polemicizes the distinction between E- and U-culture. The video was nominated in 1997 for the ZDF Video Art Prize.

Reeder is currently Associate Professor in Moving Image and Head of the Art Department of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago .

Create

Reeder's works develop a decidedly feminist perspective and have been presented at numerous international festivals and art shows. In a visually bold style, Reeder uses the conventions of popular genres such as superhero films , high school movies and magical realism to tell stories about interpersonal relationships and the processing of trauma . Often female teenagers are at the center of their films.

Her works have been presented in exhibitions at the Reykjavík Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive , La Casa Encendida ( Madrid ) and the Moderna Museet ( Stockholm ). The film festivals and art biennials that have selected their films include the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive , the Berlinale , the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival , the Kasseler Dokfest , the Hamburg Short Film Festival , the Stuttgart Film Winter and the 48th Biennale di Venezia , MoMA PS1 (New York, NY) and the Whitney Biennial 2000 (Whitney Museum of American Art).

Reeder's short film A Million Miles Away (2014) celebrated its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam , where it was nominated for a Tiger Award and received numerous awards at other international film festivals. In the thematically and stylistically related short film Blood Below the Skin (2015) Reeder takes on the high school rite of prom night , as it appears in many American teenage films as a motif for the transition from adolescence to adulthood (Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides , Tamra Davis' Not a Girl , Gil Jungers 10 Things I Hate About You ) , and gives this cliché a feminist twist. Although a film with its own plot, Blood Below the Skin can certainly be seen as a sketch for Knives and Skin (2019).

Reeder's second feature film, Knives and Skin , was named one of the most anticipated films of 2019 by the US industry journal Filmmaker (even before films by Jim Jarmusch and Martin Scorsese). Knives and Skin celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale and US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival . The film “stages a mysterious world, accented by pop song choirs, and reinterprets genre elements from magical realism, musicals, absurd comedy and film noir.” Due to Reeder's surreal imagery, Knives and Skin is often referred to in reviews with the work of David Lynch, especially Twin Peaks , and the Stranger Things series . Reeder himself claims to have never seen Stranger Things and to be much more inspired by John Waters or the movie River's Edge (1986). Her preference for playing with the abject, present through body fluids such as blood and phlegm, is also reminiscent of the work of David Cronenberg , whom she also mentions as an influence. In Knives and Skin , Reeder uses many tricks that have already become a trademark in her short films: magical cross-fades, written text elements, close-ups , detailed set design , fantastic costumes, vibrant colors and, above all, a cappela, the Singing pop songs and thereby breaking out of the plot and commenting on it at the same time.

Films (selection)

  • White Trash Girl , 1995
  • The Heart and Other Small Shapes , 2006
  • Accidents at Home and How They Happen , 2008
  • Seven Songs About Thunder , 2010
  • Tears Cannot Restore Her; Therefore I Weep , 2010
  • And I Will Rise If Only to Hold You Down , 2011
  • One Thousand Ways to Skin It , 2011
  • Girls Love Horses , 2013
  • A Million Miles Away , 2014
  • Crystal Lake , 2015
  • Blood Below the Skin , 2015
  • Signature Move (commissioned work by director; screenplay by Fawzia Mirza ), 2017
  • All Small Bodies , 2017
  • Knives and Skin , 2019

Awards (selection)

2014: A Million Miles Away

2015: Blood Below the Skin

  • Encounters (Grand Prix)
  • Chicago Underground Film Festival (Best of the Fest)

2017: Signature Move

  • FilmOut San Diego (Best Direction)
  • LA Outfest (Grand Jury Award - Outstanding American Narrative Feature)

2019: Chrystal Lake

  • Chicago Underground Film Festival (Made in Chicago)

Jury participation (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Reeder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c School of Art and Art History: Jennifer K. Reeder. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Laura Kipnis: "Laura Kipnis with Jennifer Reeder. The Interview." In: Matt Wray and Annelee Newitz (Eds.): White Trash: Race and Class in America. Routledge, New York and London, pp. 119 .
  3. ↑ Interview shipowner. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Independent Magazine. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b "I like teenage films". Retrieved August 12, 2019 . , on taz.de
  6. ↑ BAMPFA. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ La Casa Encendida. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ MoMA PS1. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  9. ^ Whitney 2000. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Revenge on the college jacket. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Generation 14plus: Knives and Skin. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ The 50 Most Anticipated American Films 2019. Accessed August 12, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Jennifer Reeder on facebook
  14. ^ A b Adam Ray Palmer: Chat with ... Jennifer Reeder (Director). Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Ann Arbor. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  16. ↑ UnderGroundFilmJournal. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  17. ↑ A Million Miles Away Nabs Grand Prix. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Short Film Festival Winterthur. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Vienna Shorts. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  21. ^ Chicago Underground. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  22. ↑ filmout. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  23. ^ Chicago Underground Awards. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shipowner, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video maker, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohio