Jill Godmilow
Professor
Department of Film, Television & Theatre
Degrees
B.A., University of Wisconsin
Research Profile
Jill Godmilow's substantial reputation as a film producer/director began in 1974 with Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, the first independently produced American documentary to enjoy extensive theatrical exhibition in the US, broadcast in 11 countries, an Academy Award nomination and the NY Film Critics' "Best Documentary" award. Her 1984 feature on the Polish Solidarity movement, Far From Poland, was heralded for breaking ground in the documentary genre with its radical deconstructive approach and fact/fiction juxtapositions. Her feminist "fiction", Waiting for the Moon, about the lives of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, won 1st prize at the Sundance Festival and enjoyed extensive theatrical distribution. Her 1998 What Farocki Taught, contains a perfect replica, shot for shot (this time in color and English) of Harun Farocki's astute 1969 black and white German film, Inextinguishable Fire, about the production of Napalm B by the Dow Chemical for the Vietnam War. In 2001 she released a six hour, three disc DVD archive, Lear’87 Archive (Condensed) on the work of the renown New York City theatrical collective, Mabou Mines, on a fully gender-reversed production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear”.Contact Information
301
O'Shaughnessy Hall
631-7167
jgodmilo@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~jgodmilo/
