Jill Godmilow Trailers
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Born outside Philadelphia in 1943, majored in Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin. An independent filmmaker, primarily of non-fiction works, since 1967. Only one dramatic feature film, WAITING FOR THE MOON, which won 1st prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987. Since 1992, a professor at the Univeristy of Notre Dame in the Film, Television and Theatre Department, teaching film production courses and other things. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, 2 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, and others.
Most Popular Jill Godmilow Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
01 January 1980
Avant-garde theater artist Jerzy Grotowski searches for the people and locations he remembers and reflects on what he endured during a remarkable and traumatic childhood experience in this compelling personal documentary.
15 June 1987
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
28 February 2017
Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM Manifesto, a French film made in 1976 by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig that was inspired by Valerie Solanas’s infamous text of the same name.
02 February 1988
A study of concert-artist Richard Dyer-Bennet at work on Homer's Odyssey - that is, developing a strategy for performing, in English, and in 1978, with harp in hand, this monumental 24 hour poem, which, in Homer's time and Homer's life, only existed in oral form - a long song, performed in public as entertainment and as tribal history.
03 March 1977
In a small community of steel workers, truck drivers, and teachers on the South Side of Chicago, a musical group called the Popovich Brothers maintained the traditional music and rich culture of their Serbian homeland by performing in local venues.
01 January 1977
Louise Nevelson was more than 60 by the time the art world acknowledged her as one of America’s greatest living sculptors.
07 March 2023
Here's a film for high school students and their teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War, composed of just photographs from that war, narration and, to help us through a damned disheartening story, lots of the Bach Suite for Solo Cello #1 in G.
10 March 1984
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") to explode cinema verite's mythic claim to be the only trustworthy mode of representation for discussing the real world, and in particular, social and political issues, on film.
16 March 1971
Made entirely by women - a group of young men and women have a cinema verite confessional about their most bizarre sexual experiences in a strange modern day Decameron.
18 September 1974
1974 documentary about symphony conductor Antonia Brico, including her struggle against gender bias in her profession.
08 September 1988
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
04 August 1995
When Jill Godmilow’s movie Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000).
31 December 1998
A English-language remake of the German film "Nicht löschbares Feuer" (1969).
14 November 2001
Jill Godmilow's six-hour archive of The Mabou Mines ensemble's controversial 1990, gender-reversed production of William Shakespeare's King Lear documents the first two-week workshop on the play at the Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta.
