You either become super unremarkable or get super weird. When you grow up in a place that is unremarkable and you yourself think you are unremarkable, you create your own remarkableness and maybe it is in some sort of internal resistance. We have shot a bunch of stuff in and around Chicago, but it is shots of interiors, or framed so we eliminate any traces of it being urban or interesting. I have been here for 20 years and I have still not made a film that has a shot of the skyline, train, etc. Once I got here I realized that I had no business being in the city and certainly no business making work that was about the city. JR: When I left Ohio to come to grad school at SAIC, there was a trail of scorched earth behind me. I\W: What inspires the relatively unremarkable landscapes and environments present in your films? Injecting these stories with feminism, telekinesis, and multiple sub-plots, she creates worlds in which teen girls are often the stars, underdogs reigning as leads. Hailing from Columbus, Jennifer writes and directs films about places that are overlooked, the day-to-day scenes otherwise dismissed as filler. Dempsey Creative Capital DCASE DePaul University design Devening Projects digital art Dock 6 Document drawing Duke University dye Elmhurst Art Museum EXPO Chicago Faber
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