Jill Godmilow

Jill Godmilow

Born outside Philadelphia in 1943, majored in Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin. An independent filmmaker, primarily of non-fiction works, since 1967. Only one dramatic feature film, WAITING FOR THE MOON, which won 1st prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987. Since 1992, a professor at the Univeristy of Notre Dame in the Film, Television and Theatre Department, teaching film production courses and other things. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, 2 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, and others.

  • Title: Jill Godmilow
  • Popularity: 0.808
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1943-11-23
  • Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Jill Godmilow Movies

  • 1988
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    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots

    1 1988 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    What Farocki Taught

    What Farocki Taught

    5 1998 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    What Farocki Taught

    What Farocki Taught

    5 1998 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    What Farocki Taught

    What Farocki Taught

    5 1998 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    What Farocki Taught

    What Farocki Taught

    5 1998 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Waiting for the Moon

    Waiting for the Moon

    5 1987 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Waiting for the Moon

    Waiting for the Moon

    5 1987 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    1 1995 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    1 1995 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    Far from Poland

    Far from Poland

    5 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

    6.4 1974 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Nevelson In Process

    Nevelson In Process

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka 1980

    With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka 1980

    1 1980 HD

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

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  • 2023
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    Notes and Images From the Vietnam War

    Notes and Images From the Vietnam War

    1 2023 HD

    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,...

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  • 1974
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    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

    Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman

    6.4 1974 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    SCUM Manifesto

    SCUM Manifesto

    1 2017 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    SCUM Manifesto

    SCUM Manifesto

    1 2017 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Tales

    Tales

    1 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

    The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1988
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    The Odyssey Tapes

    The Odyssey Tapes

    1 1988 HD

    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,...

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  • 2001
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    Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)

    Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)

    1 2001 HD

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

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