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Girls to the Front! The Cinema of Jennifer Reeder, Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series
The singular Jennifer Reeder, on stage and live for a no-holds-barred conversation on art, film, popular culture, and all the messy in-between.
Writer, director, and producer Jennifer Reeder has earned comparisons to other filmmakers: the surrealism of Lynch, the camp of Waters, the pop-culture sensibility of Spheeris, the stylistic experimentation of Deren. While her influences are varied, Reeder is a singular filmmaker all her own. Reeder's films have premiered and screened at prestigious global festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam, SXSW, Tribeca, BFI-London Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. She received the 2024 Tour De Force Award from the Chicago International Film Festival and in 2020 was named by Oscar-winner Bong Joon-ho as a filmmaker pivotal to the future of cinema. [60 min]
"Thank goodness for Jennifer Reeder." — Rebecca Martin, Cinema Femme
"Jennifer Reeder's visionary films take place in a deadpan dimension populated with monstrous femmes and vibrate on a frequency that’s unlike anything else." — Kate Rife, RogerEbert.com
"A boldly original voice." — The Hollywood Reporter
