Jennifer Montgomery

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Jennifer Montgomery
Born (1961-05-28) May 28, 1961 (age 64)
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • video artist
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1996)

Jennifer Montgomery (born May 28, 1961) is an American filmmaker and video artist. A 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, she has made several films with Super 8 film, as well as some with videotape.

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Biography

Jennifer Montgomery was born on May 28, 1961, in New York City. [1] She was one of the subjects of photographer Jock Sturges during her youth, later developing a relationship with him. [2] She obtained her BA from Wesleyan University in 1984, [1] later moving to San Francisco that same year. [2]

Montgomery briefly experimenting with painting, writing, as well as activism with the all-LGBT Victoria Mercado Brigade where she recalled "sending a brigade down with $10,000 for armaments". [2] After one year at the San Francisco Art Institute (1986-1987) and at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1988-1989), she obtained an MFA from Bard College in 1993. [1]

Moving to New York, Montgomery began making experimental films with Super 8 film as her medium, [2] one of the few remaining filmmakers doing so. [3] Her Super-8 short films include Home Avenue (1989), Age 12: Love with a Little L (1990), and I, A Lamb (1992). [4] In 1995, she premiered Art for Teachers of Children, a black-and-white film starring Duncan Hannah and Caitlin Grace McDonnell that "serves up a number of penetrating in-sights into some of the most troubling issues of American sexual politics". [2] She premiered Home Avenue (1989) and Love With a Little L (1990) at the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. [1] In 1998, she premiered Troika at NewFest. [4] She later produced a feature-length video film, Threads of Belonging. [5] In 2005, she released Notes on the Death of Kodachrome, touching on the obsolescence of her preferred medium, [6] She was part at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. [7]

Montgomery worked at Cooper Union as an Adjunct Professor of Film and Video from 1991 to 1995, before becoming an adjunct professor of women's studies at Barnard College in 1996. [1] She was a film instructor at Ithaca College and the School of Visual Arts in 1995. [1]

Montgomery won a Service Prize at the 1989 San Francisco International Film Festival for Home Avenue. [1] She was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1991. [8] In 1996, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in filmmaking. [9] [1] She won the Anonymous Was A Woman Award in 2015. [10]

Montgomery was based in Brooklyn as of 1996, [1] but later moved to Chicago by 2008. [7]

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Reports of the President and of the Treasurer". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1997. p. 90.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Csicsery, George Paul (1996–1997). "Memories of sexual violence". Film Quarterly (ARCHIVE). 50 (2): 2-10. doi:10.2307/1213418. JSTOR   1213418. ProQuest   223098440.
  3. ↑ "Jennifer Montgomery". Women Make Movies. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hastie, Amelie (1999). "Female redundancies: An interview with Jennifer Montgomery". Afterimage. 27 (1): 6-7. doi:10.1525/aft.1999.27.1.6. ProQuest   212111660.
  5. 1 2 Vey Duke, Emily (2004). "Threads of belonging, Jennifer Montgomery". C: International Contemporary Art. No. 81. p. 44. ProQuest   215544635.
  6. 1 2 Munson, Jason (July 1, 2006). "Jennifer Montgomery's Notes on the Death of Kodachrome". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Jennifer Montgomery". 2008 Whitney Biennial. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Jennifer Montgomery - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Jennifer Montgomery". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Recipients to Date". Anonymous Was A Woman. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  11. ↑ "2001 framed". Film Comment. Vol. 38, no. 1. 2002. p. 62. ProQuest   210283825.
  12. ↑ "RIVER WILD". Film Comment. Vol. 44, no. 3. 2008. p. 6, 8. ProQuest   210256935.
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