Crystal Lake
Jennifer Reeder
A group of young girls take over a skate park. Behind the big fence that surrounds the concrete field around the half pipes, they have created their own realm. Here they can skate as much as they want, boys are not allowed in. When Ladan arrives in town, the girls automatically include her in the group. Crystal Lake is an ode to solidarity among girls.
Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder is a filmmaker and visual artist as well as associate professor and director of graduate studies at the School of Art at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. She has been repeatedly nominated for the Rockefeller Grants for Film/Video/New Media. In 2001, she was also nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for Visual Art and the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation Award. She lives in Chicago with her children. Reeder speaks with deeply feminist conviction about trauma and overcoming trauma. Her award-winning work has screened internationally, including at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the London Film Festival, SXSW, Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennale.
Films by Jennifer Reeder (selection)
Knives and Skin 2019 | Crystal Lake 2016 | Blood Below the Skin 2015 | A Million Miles Away 2014 | And I Will Rise If Only To Hold You Down 2012 | Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep 2010 | The Heart and Other Small Shapes 2006 | White Trash Girl 1995
