Jennifer Reeder facts for kids
Jennifer Reeder (born in 1971 in Ohio) is an American artist, filmmaker, and writer. She creates movies and art.
Her short film A Million Miles Away (made in 2014) was nominated for a special award at a big film festival in the Netherlands. It was also shown at the famous Sundance Film Festival in 2015. In 2003, she had her own art show at a museum in Sweden called Moderna Museet.
Jennifer Reeder has received many important awards. These awards help artists make their films. She got a Rockefeller Grant in 2002 and a Creative Capital grant in 2015. These helped her make her first long experimental film, Knives and Skin. She also won a SFFILM Rainin Grant in 2018–19 for her writing. In 2019, she received the Alpert Film Award. In 2021, she was given a United States Artists (USA) Fellowship.
Her newer films often look at the lives of teenage girls. They show how girls use music, slang, and fashion to express who they are. They also explore their feelings.
Her films have been shown at many important places. These include the Whitney Biennial, the New York Video Festival, and the Venice Biennial. They have also been shown at the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Jennifer Reeder teaches about making movies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is an Associate Professor there. She also started a book club called Tracers Book Club. This group talks about fairness and equal rights for everyone. She studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, finishing in 1996.
Her Films
- The Heart and Other Small Shapes, 2006
- Claim, 2007 (a short video)
- 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
- Girls Love Horses, 2013
- A Million Miles Away, 2014
- Crystal Lake, 2015
- Blood Below the Skin, 2015
- Signature Move, 2017
- All Small Bodies, 2017
- Shuvit, 2017
- Knives and Skin, 2019
- V/H/S/94, (part called Holy Hell), 2021
- Night's End, 2022
- Perpetrator (2023)
See also
- List of female film and television directors
- List of LGBT-related films directed by women
