Jennifer Reeder

Jennifer Reeder (born 1971, Ohio) is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short film A Million Miles Away (2014) was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam[1] and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category.[2][3] In 2003, she had a solo screening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.[4] She received a Rockefeller Grant for New Media in 2002 and a Creative Capital grant in 2015 to support the production of her first experimental feature-length film, Knives and Skin.[5][6] She won a 2018–19 SFFILM Rainin Grant for scriptwriting, and was the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony.[7] In 2021, she was awarded a United States Artists (USA) Fellowship.[8]

For the historian, see Jennifer Reeder (historian).
Jennifer Reeder (VIS 2015)

Reeder attracted notice early in her career for her performance and video work as "White Trash Girl," a fictional identity through which the artist explored lower-income white culture in the United States.[9] Interviewed by writer and Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis for the anthology White Trash: Race and Class in America, Reeder said that white trash "describes a certain esthetic, but I think it's also a socioeconomic situation, and a way of perceiving the world around you and your own place in the world."[10] Her more recent films explore the lives of adolescent girls and their use of music, slang, and fashion to express their identities and aspects of their emotional world.[11][12]

Her films have screened at the Whitney Biennial; The New York Video Festival; Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria; the Gene Siskel Film Center; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; the Wexner Center for the Arts; the Chicago Underground Film Festival; the Criterion Channel;[13] and the 48th International Venice Biennial.[14]

Reeder currently teaches in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago and holds the position of Associate Professor Moving Image.[15][16] She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues.[17] Reeder received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and was represented by the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.[18]

Films
  • White Trash Girl, 1995
  • The Heart and Other Small Shapes, 2006
  • Claim, 2007 (video short)
  • 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
  • Knives and Skin, 2019
  • V/H/S/94, (segment Holy Hell), 2021
  • Night's End, 2022
  • Perpetrator (2023)

See also

References
  1. "Jennifer Reeder". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 11 February 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. "International Film Festival Rotterdam: Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2014". International Film Festival Rotterdam. IFFR. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. Means, Sean P. (9 December 2014). "2015 Sundance Film Festival: Short films slate". The Salt Lake Tribune. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  4. "Kronologi 2000-2009". Moderna Museet. Archived from the original on 7 February 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  5. "Announcing the 2015 Creative Capital Artists: $4,370,000 Awarded to 46 Moving Image and Visual Arts Projects". Creative Capital. 7 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  6. "Knives and Skin". Creative Capital. 2015. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  7. "United States Artists » Jennifer Reeder". Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  8. "United States Artists » Jennifer Reeder". Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  9. Talbot, Margaret (30 November 1997). "Getting Credit for Being White". The New York Times. pp. Section 6, Page 116. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  10. Kipnis, Laura (1997). "White Trash Girl: The Interview". In Wray, Matt; Newitz, Annalee (eds.). White Trash: Race and Class in America. New York: Routledge. pp. 113–30. ISBN 0415916917.
  11. Wisby, Gary (9 September 2014). "Feature-length dreams and artful, award-winning films". University of Illinois at Chicago News Center. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  12. "Blood Below the Skin: Films by Jennifer Reeder". Wisconsin Film Festival. 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  13. "Short Films by Jennifer Reeder". The Criterion Channel. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  14. "Jennifer Reeder at the Gene Siskel Film Center (September 29, 2014)". School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni News. SAIC. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  15. "Jennifer K Reeder". School of Art & Art History. University of Illinois at Chicago. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  16. Altadonna, Ashley (29 February 2016). "Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder talks feminism, the Midwest, cat films". Milwaukee Record. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  17. "MCA Talk: Tracers Book Club". Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 2015. Archived from the original on 7 September 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  18. "Jennifer Reeder". Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
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