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 and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category.[1][2] In 2003, she had a solo screening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.[3] 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.[4][5]

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.[6] 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."[7] 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.[8][9]

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;[10] and the 48th International Venice Biennial.[11]

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.[12] She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues.[13] Reeder received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and is represented by the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.[14]

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

See also

• List of female film and television directors
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women

References

External links

• Jennifer Reeder at IMDb
• Official website