Perpetrator
2023
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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.
Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism.
Sep 6, 2023 · Prolific feminist filmmaker Jennifer Reeder first picked up a camera while studying performance at Ohio State University. While attending the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1990s, she began creating dozens of DYI video art with a distinctly riot grrrl-bent.
Aug 24, 2023 · “Perpetrator,” Chicago-based filmmaker Jennifer Reeder’s fifth and most commanding and elegantly bloody feature to date, begins with both eyes on a cheap thrill that the movie very quickly ...
In the world of Jennifer Reeder’s feminist genre films, dead girls sing, blood has agency and teenagers get more than car keys on their birthday. Take Jonquil ‘Jonny’ Baptiste (Kiah McKirnan), the rebellious mixed-race high schooler who leads Reeder’s latest, Perpetrator.
Feb 23, 2023 · “I have no shame saying that on some level, I’ve kind of been making the same film over and over,” writer-director Jennifer Reeder tells me on a recent Zoom call.
Sep 1, 2023 · Director Jennifer Reeder discusses how the success of Knives and Skin influenced the green-light process on Perpetrator. She also details her collaboration with the film's stars, up-and-comer...
Mar 22, 2022 · Jennifer Reeder ‘s bonafides as a horror director — particularly one attuned to the terrifying travails of the female teenage experience, a la her breakout “Knives and Skin” — are...
Aug 28, 2023 · Feminist horror icon Jennifer Reeder is looking to debunk the cultural anxiety of seeing a “pack of girls” together onscreen with her latest film “Perpetrator.”
Oct 25, 2023 · “Jennifer’s Body,” about a high school girl who is transformed into a murderous succubus after being sacrificed by an emo boy band, isn’t the most flattering depiction of female sexuality on...
