Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow (born November 23, 1943) is an American independent filmmaker, primarily of non-fiction works, and an advocate for Post-Realism in documentary. She is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.[1][2] Godmilow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
Early life
She was born outside Philadelphia and now resides in New York City. Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
Godmilow's 1974 film with collaborator
In 1984, she made Far From Poland,[5] a non-fiction, post-realist feature about the Polish Solidarity movement, filmed entirely in the U.S.[6]
Her 1987 feature film
In 1998, What Farocki Taught premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film is a replica, in color and in English, of Harun Farocki's 1969 black and white German language film Inextinguishable Fire,[8][9] on the production of Napalm at Dow Chemical Company. Her film was featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "The Bio (Jill Godmilow)". University of Notre Dame.
- ^ "The Films of Jill Godmilow". University of Notre Dame.
- ^ a b "Jill Godmilow". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ "National Film Registry Titles Selected 1989-2017, Listed Alphabetically" (PDF). National Film Registry. Library of Congress.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (October 3, 1984). "Film: By Jill Godmilow, 'Far from Poland'". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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- ^ Goodman, Walter (March 6, 1987). "Film: 'Waiting for Moon'". The New York Times.
- ^ "Harun Farocki: Inextinguishable Fire 1969". Museum of Modern Art. 2016–2017. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ Breitbart, Eric (1998). "Reviewed Work: What Farocki Taught by Film Godmilow". Cineaste. 23 (4): 51 – via JSTOR.
External links
- Jill Godmilow at IMDb
- New York Times Biography
- Profile on Video Data Bank
- "What's Wrong With the Liberal Documentary?", Jill Godmilow, Peace Review, March, 1999
- Un-Documenting History: An Interview with Filmmaker Jill Godmilow by Lynn C. Miller, Text Performance Quarterly, July 7, 1997, vol 7, number 3
- "How Real Is the Reality in Documentary Films?" Jill Godmilow in conversation with Ann-Louise Shapiro", History and Theory ,Vol 36, No. 4, 1997, Wesleyan University Press