Jennifer Reeder

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Jennifer Reeder

Born January 1, 1971 · Ohio, USA (age 55)

Jennifer Reeder is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. She attracted notice early in her career for her performance and video work as "White Trash Girl" (1995) a fictional identity through which the artist explored lower-income white culture in the United States. She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues. Reeder received an MFA …

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V/H/S/94V/H/S/94 · 2021
V/H/S/94
6.12021
MovieHorrorThriller
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
PerpetratorPerpetrator · 2023
Perpetrator
4.42023
MovieHorror
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her eighteenth birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
Night's EndNight's End · 2022
Night's End
4.42022
MovieHorror
An anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to perform an exorcism which takes a horrific turn.
Signature MoveSignature Move · 2017
Signature Move
5.42017
MovieRomanceComedy
A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Zaynab copes by taking up Lucha-style wrestling.
ShuvitShuvit · 2017
Shuvit
7.02017
MovieDrama
This is a glimpse into a day shared by an extremely sad father and his dare devil son. Each male has experienced an especially traumatic afternoon and although they bond over a love for skateboarding, neither is able to communicate their feelings.
Knives and SkinKnives and Skin · 2019
Knives and Skin
5.22019
MovieDramaMystery
In the wake of a high school student's mysterious disappearance, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town's teenage girls, gathering in force until it can no longer be contained.
ForeveringForevering · 2021
Forevering
2021
Movie
A young woman struggling with loss fakes a pregnancy and lies to the lesbian couple she is supposed to be surrogate for. The discovery of the dead body of a woman about her age helps her to cope.
Lola, 15Lola, 15 · 2017
Lola, 15
2.02017
MovieDocumentary
LOLA, 15 is the first film in an upcoming series called LET ME GET WHAT I WANT THIS TIME. Its a short, formal documentary which intimately observes the sacred spaces of a fifteen year old girl named Lola. The larger series will examine many more of these spaces across a wide range of race, class, location and culture. The painful process of shedding adolescence is actualized in this highly curated interior--a sanctuary and visible elegy to childhood. Through languid drifts across the details of Lola's bedroom, a secret language is revealed.

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Skin JobSkin Job · 2002
Skin Job
2002
Movie
"Art Jones commissioned this piece for a show called “Word” which opens at Diverse Works in Houston this April. Each participant was asked to choose a particular article or essay in order to generate a visual/audio/virtual response. The work produced is a conversation between an artist and a writer. For Skin Job, I chose to respond to various articles contemporary theorist, Laura Kipnis has written about pornography. I am interested in the similarities between how she writes about sexualized female bodies and how many other contemporary writers address technology. We fetishize flesh in the same way that we fetishize machines. The text in the piece is an original haiku which suggests that the heroine is man-made—an android. She is a bionic woman with an unlikely sense of loneliness, sexuality and desire. She seems observed and disoriented in her empty, future space. This piece contemplates a virtual identity as it influences a sense of contemporary utopia. (...)"

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