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Sep 6, 2023 · Reeder’s films often build on each other, sharing everything from settings and characters to certain lines of dialogue or plot points, though they are often re-calibrated for a different emotional impact on each subsequent reuse.
This formal and narrative disjointedness is precisely what gives Knives and Skin and Reeder’s films generally their particular flavour. It is Reeder’s method for opening the doors of representation and rendering visible the invisible.
Mar 29, 2017 · Filmmaking as Social Justice: How 'Signature Move' Breaks Queer Stereotypes. Jennifer Reeder's debut feature follows the love story between a Pakistani woman and a Latina bookseller. She...
- Marta Bausells
Like Lynch, Reeder makes films that are surreal and mysterious, filled with psychological horror and punctuated with dark humor. Like Waters, she embraces camp and cult cinema, blending provocativeness with subversiveness. But, ultimately, Reeder’s work is entirely her own.
Jan 10, 2018 · Unlike the empty nostalgia of Stranger Things, however, Reeder isn’t simply aping the atmosphere of her youth, but distilling its pop-culture to create a style all her own. Imagine John Hughes without the sexism, or David Lynch directing an episode of Saved by the Bell as told from Kelly Kapowski’s point-of-view.
Aug 30, 2023 · One of the most consistently innovative directors working today, Jennifer Reeder is promoting her new film, Perpetrator, the complex tale of a teenager who undergoes a strange awakening at the same time as a suspected serial killer is abducting girls in her area – girls whom she is determined to try to track down and help if we can.
Mar 9, 2016 · This is the radicalism of Reeder’s films: they depict moments that resonate with a wide audience and yet are almost never seen in mainstream media. In addition to her filmmaking, Reeder founded the social justice initiative, Tracers Book Club and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
