Jill Godmilow

Jill Godmilow (November 23, 1943) was born outside Philadelphia and now resides in New York City. She is an independent filmmaker, primarily of non-fiction works, and an advocate for Post-Realism in documentary.

Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In 1974, her film with collaborator Judy Collins, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, about the pioneering female conductor Antonia Brico, received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was later selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2003.[1]

In 1984, she made Far From Poland,[2] a non-fiction, post-realist feature about the Polish Solidarity movement filmed entirely in the U.S.[3]

She made a dramatic feature film called Waiting for the Moon, a biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas played by actresses Linda Hunt and Linda Bassett. It was produced for PBS's American Playhouse series, released theatrically by Skouras Pictures, and won Best Feature Film at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987.[4]

In 1998, her film 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 called Inextinguishable Fire,[5][6] on the production of Napalm at Dow Chemical Company. Her film was featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.[7]

Godmilow is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.[8]

She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.[7]

References
  1. National Film Preservation Board Film Registry.
  2. Holden, Stephen (1984-10-03). "Film: By Jill Godmilow, 'Far from Poland'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  3. Patterson, Wendy (November 7, 1986). "Far from Documentary: An Interview with Jill Godmilow". Afterimage. 13 no 7: 4–7.
  4. Goodman, Walter (1987-03-06). "FILM: 'WAITING FOR MOON'". The New York Times.
  5. "Harun Farocki. Inextinguishable Fire. 1969 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  6. Breitbart, Eric (1998). "Reviewed Work: What Farocki Taught by Film Godmilow". Cineaste. 23 no 4: 51 – via JSTOR.
  7. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jill Godmilow". Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  8. University of Notre Dame emeritus faculty page
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