Name Jill Godmilow | Role Film-maker | |
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Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1965) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Dramatic Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Movies Far from Poland, Waiting for the Moon, Roy Cohn / Jack Smith, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, What Farocki Taught Similar People Ron Vawter, Gertrude Stein, Alice B Toklas, Jack Smith, Harun Farocki | ||
Post-Realist Film Night with Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow was born outside Philadelphia in 1943. She is a working independent film and video maker, primarily of non-fiction works.
Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 1974 her film, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, on the conductor Antonia Brico, received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2003.
In 1984 she made Far From Poland, a non-fiction feature about the Polish Solidarity movement.
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 and released theatrically by Skouras Pictures, and won Best Feature Film at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987.
In 1998 she premiered What Farocki Taught 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, on the Napalm production at Dow Chemical.
In 2000 Godmilow was featured in the Whitney Biennial.
Godmilow is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.