Jill Godmilow Movies

  • 1988
    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots

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    Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

    Calling the Shots
  • 1974
    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

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    1974 documentary about symphony conductor Antonia Brico, including her struggle against gender bias in her profession.

    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
  • 1995
    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

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    When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related...

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
  • 1987
    Waiting for the Moon

    Waiting for the Moon

    Waiting for the Moon

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    Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit...

    Waiting for the Moon
  • 1984
    Far from Poland

    Far from Poland

    Far from Poland

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    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...

    Far from Poland
  • 2023
    Notes and Images From the Vietnam War

    Notes and Images From the Vietnam War

    Notes and Images From the Vietnam War

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    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,...

    Notes and Images From the Vietnam War
  • 1998
    What Farocki Taught

    What Farocki Taught

    What Farocki Taught

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    A remake, in English of the German film Nicht löschbares Feuer (1969).

    What Farocki Taught
  • 2017
    SCUM Manifesto

    SCUM Manifesto

    SCUM Manifesto

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    Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM...

    SCUM Manifesto
  • 1977
    Nevelson In Process

    Nevelson In Process

    Nevelson In Process

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    Louise Nevelson was more than 60 by the time the art world acknowledged her as one of America’s greatest living sculptors. In her early years...

    Nevelson In Process
  • 1977
    The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

    The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

    The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

    01977HD

    In a small community of steel workers, truck drivers, and teachers on the South Side of Chicago, a musical group called the Popovich Brothers...

    The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
  • 2001
    Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)

    Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)

    Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)

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    Jill Godmilow's six-hour archive of The Mabou Mines ensemble's controversial 1990, gender-reversed production of William Shakespeare's King Lear...

    Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)
  • 1988
    The Odyssey Tapes

    The Odyssey Tapes

    The Odyssey Tapes

    01988HD

    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,...

    The Odyssey Tapes
  • 1971
    Tales

    Tales

    Tales

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    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...

    Tales
  • 1980
    With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka 1980

    With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka 1980

    With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka 1980

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    Avant-garde theater artist Jerzy Grotowski searches for the people and locations he remembers and reflects on what he endured during a remarkable and...

    With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka 1980