Jennifer Reeder

A young couples romantic beach date turns dark when they encounter a mysterious seaside stranger. Could the last day of summer be their last day ever?

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A lone woman marks her trail and sheds some excess baggage along the way. A fresh take on the modern Western.

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This is a glimpse into a day shared by an extremely sad father and his dare devil son. Each male has experienced an especially traumatic afternoon and although they bond over a love for skateboarding, neither is able to communicate their feelings.

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LOLA, 15 is the first film in an upcoming series called LET ME GET WHAT I WANT THIS TIME. Its a short, formal documentary which intimately observes the sacred spaces of a fifteen year old girl named Lola. The larger series will examine many more of these spaces across a wide range of race, class, location and culture. The painful process of shedding adolescence is actualized in this highly curated interior--a sanctuary and visible elegy to childhood. Through languid drifts across the details of Lola's bedroom, a secret language is revealed.

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'All Small Bodies' is a feminist, sci-fi take on the Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. It occurs in the distant future among the ruins of a planetary catastrophe, revealing the abuses of history and technology. In the wake of the chaotic aftermath, there are several resilient survivors including two young girls named Z and Bub. The film follows these curious adolescents who have long been lost and alone in the haunted, other-worldly woods, as they awaken their extrasensory abilities and reclaim their autonomy from a menacing dark presence.

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A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Zaynab copes by taking up Lucha-style wrestling.

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Crystal Lake is about a group of young girls who take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the reclaimed ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists, which presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence.

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A surreal and haunting reverie of youthful dreams and desire.

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This short narrative chronicles a week in the lives of three teenage girls. They are high school classmates from different social circles, who form a bond in the wake of an unanticipated incident. Two of the girls are falling in love with each other against all expectations and the third girl is forced to mother her own mother after her father vanishes. Each girl seeks comfort within the walls of her bedroom where the music blasting from the turntable provides a magical synchronicity between them all.

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An adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls (the choir) simultaneously experience a supernatural version of coming-of-age. The transformation is equal parts tense and tender. It unravels patiently to the infectious beat of an 80s era heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation.

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A professional woman, traveling alone, recalls and reenacts an incident from her adolescence after injuring herself off-camera. This is a fractured little story about a business trip, a bloodstain and being okay.

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An evening in a suburban household reveals a familial fault line: a woman and her husband argue diffidently in the kitchen, and, tucked away in her bedroom, their teenage daughter and her friend get ready for a school dance. The two pairs revolve around each other, repeating the same words, though they are all stricken with the same inability to connect.

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A professional sign language interpreter becomes very unprofessional as she suffers a sincere but hilarious emotional breakdown during a gathering for hearing impaired physics enthusiasts whose motto is “Let’s Get PhysicScal”.

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Two metal brides sing a Nirvana-Destiny's-Child-Mashup

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When a young woman with remarkable and hilarious coping skills finds the dead body of a teenage girl in the woods she is forced to reconcile her greatest fear--her fantastically failing life. This is a dark comedy about a mother, a daughter, a liar and her therapist.

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A young Colombian woman’s violent and expected suicide prompts her estranged twin sister to confront an adolescent trauma.

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This short deadpan narrative is a glimpse into the lives of two children and three adults maximizing dysfunction. Regular people keep secrets and act out intimate wants. Ultimately, this piece examines the awkwardness and specificity of human desire.

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Dramatization of the dull aftermath of a series of un-named and traumatic events shared by eight people. This project was inspired by an original survey on sadness distributed in the United States and Sweden.

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"Tiny Plastic Rainbow" is a shifty narrative about trauma, aloneness and a dog with one eye. Set in a modern urban environment, TPR chronicles one day in the lives of seven adults. Each character is pathologically consumed by a purposeful sense of detachment and sorrow. This necessitates creative coping techniques and prevents any connection with each other or the phenomenal world that surrounds them. Their lives are solitary but synchronized. That is, although they do not specifically know each other, their paths cross constantly throughout the day. The audience becomes implicated in the crime of coincidence and missed opportunities. (...)

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"This is a personal tape about history, boredom and super-8 film. A lone boy lurking in the grassy knoll plays himself in a day to day anti-drama. The same boy takes on the un-romantic role of a well-known political figure. It is judicious to assume that in this instance, somewhere between speculation and depression lies the truth. This piece features by Prefuse 73, Autopoieses and Stars of the Lid."

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This is a personal tape about heartache, regret and transatlantic travel. A cautious driver alone on the highway remembers the first and the last time she had sex at midnight. We are lonely and coping.

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"Art Jones commissioned this piece for a show called “Word” which opens at Diverse Works in Houston this April. Each participant was asked to choose a particular article or essay in order to generate a visual/audio/virtual response. The work produced is a conversation between an artist and a writer. For Skin Job, I chose to respond to various articles contemporary theorist, Laura Kipnis has written about pornography. I am interested in the similarities between how she writes about sexualized female bodies and how many other contemporary writers address technology. We fetishize flesh in the same way that we fetishize machines. The text in the piece is an original haiku which suggests that the heroine is man-made—an android. She is a bionic woman with an unlikely sense of loneliness, sexuality and desire. She seems observed and disoriented in her empty, future space. This piece contemplates a virtual identity as it influences a sense of contemporary utopia. (...)"

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A boy walks to his locker and takes something out.

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"A Room With the Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling" is a non-narrative videotape shot entirely in and around central Ohio. This tape was shot over a two week period but means to document a “day” in the life of the Midwest—it begins at swim team practice at 8:00am and ends after midnight in the parking lot of an all-night grocery store. It is a series of idiosyncratic sequences which suggest a certain sense of extreme in the gestures of the everyday. A man waits for his flight in the airport. A teenage girl walks through her sub-division to meet a friend. An older woman washes her hair in the sink. A young boy sits on the floor playing video games. A plane flies overhead. Clouds shift. Cars move across the overpass. A grocery store is open all night.

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School girls in a public swimming pool.

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Girl sings a Madonna song and texts about her life.

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A girl sings "Nevermind" by Nirvana

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A loop of horses frolicking in the pasture.

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The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode made in the Clit-o-matic: The Adventures Of White Trash Girl! series about female superhero White Trash Girl. It has been referred to as part #3 in an ongoing series.

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A woman from poor upbringing grows up to be the leader of a group of extremely rugged individuals.

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A young woman struggling with loss fakes a pregnancy and lies to the lesbian couple she is supposed to be surrogate for. The discovery of the dead body of a woman about her age helps her to cope.

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In the wake of a high school student's mysterious disappearance, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town's teenage girls, gathering in force until it can no longer be contained.

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A young couples romantic beach date turns dark when they encounter a mysterious seaside stranger. Could the last day of summer be their last day ever?

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A lone woman marks her trail and sheds some excess baggage along the way. A fresh take on the modern Western.

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This is a glimpse into a day shared by an extremely sad father and his dare devil son. Each male has experienced an especially traumatic afternoon and although they bond over a love for skateboarding, neither is able to communicate their feelings.

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'All Small Bodies' is a feminist, sci-fi take on the Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. It occurs in the distant future among the ruins of a planetary catastrophe, revealing the abuses of history and technology. In the wake of the chaotic aftermath, there are several resilient survivors including two young girls named Z and Bub. The film follows these curious adolescents who have long been lost and alone in the haunted, other-worldly woods, as they awaken their extrasensory abilities and reclaim their autonomy from a menacing dark presence.

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Crystal Lake is about a group of young girls who take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the reclaimed ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists, which presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence.

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A surreal and haunting reverie of youthful dreams and desire.

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This short narrative chronicles a week in the lives of three teenage girls. They are high school classmates from different social circles, who form a bond in the wake of an unanticipated incident. Two of the girls are falling in love with each other against all expectations and the third girl is forced to mother her own mother after her father vanishes. Each girl seeks comfort within the walls of her bedroom where the music blasting from the turntable provides a magical synchronicity between them all.

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An adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls (the choir) simultaneously experience a supernatural version of coming-of-age. The transformation is equal parts tense and tender. It unravels patiently to the infectious beat of an 80s era heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation.

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A professional woman, traveling alone, recalls and reenacts an incident from her adolescence after injuring herself off-camera. This is a fractured little story about a business trip, a bloodstain and being okay.

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An evening in a suburban household reveals a familial fault line: a woman and her husband argue diffidently in the kitchen, and, tucked away in her bedroom, their teenage daughter and her friend get ready for a school dance. The two pairs revolve around each other, repeating the same words, though they are all stricken with the same inability to connect.

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A professional sign language interpreter becomes very unprofessional as she suffers a sincere but hilarious emotional breakdown during a gathering for hearing impaired physics enthusiasts whose motto is “Let’s Get PhysicScal”.

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Two metal brides sing a Nirvana-Destiny's-Child-Mashup

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When a young woman with remarkable and hilarious coping skills finds the dead body of a teenage girl in the woods she is forced to reconcile her greatest fear--her fantastically failing life. This is a dark comedy about a mother, a daughter, a liar and her therapist.

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A young Colombian woman’s violent and expected suicide prompts her estranged twin sister to confront an adolescent trauma.

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This short deadpan narrative is a glimpse into the lives of two children and three adults maximizing dysfunction. Regular people keep secrets and act out intimate wants. Ultimately, this piece examines the awkwardness and specificity of human desire.

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Dramatization of the dull aftermath of a series of un-named and traumatic events shared by eight people. This project was inspired by an original survey on sadness distributed in the United States and Sweden.

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"Tiny Plastic Rainbow" is a shifty narrative about trauma, aloneness and a dog with one eye. Set in a modern urban environment, TPR chronicles one day in the lives of seven adults. Each character is pathologically consumed by a purposeful sense of detachment and sorrow. This necessitates creative coping techniques and prevents any connection with each other or the phenomenal world that surrounds them. Their lives are solitary but synchronized. That is, although they do not specifically know each other, their paths cross constantly throughout the day. The audience becomes implicated in the crime of coincidence and missed opportunities. (...)

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A boy walks to his locker and takes something out.

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School girls in a public swimming pool.

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Girl sings a Madonna song and texts about her life.

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A girl sings "Nevermind" by Nirvana

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The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode made in the Clit-o-matic: The Adventures Of White Trash Girl! series about female superhero White Trash Girl. It has been referred to as part #3 in an ongoing series.

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A woman from poor upbringing grows up to be the leader of a group of extremely rugged individuals.

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