Jennifer Montgomery

For this class we had a guest speaker come to present some films she had made. When class started Carl started right away talking about Jennifer Montgomery as we were getting ready to view the films she had brought for us. What i really got from Jennifer Montgomery was that she was obssesed with super 8 film, she teaches film, and she was presenting a showing in Milwaukee this week.
To start off the day Jennifer Montgomery showed us a student spoff film, that was made in 1995, "How To Use Equipment" It showed the relationship of equipment to the user's. I wasn't to sure what Jennifer Montgomery was trying to get us to think about or what she was trying to say with this film, but i guess all things considerd it was just a warm up film to get us ready for the day.
The next film we viewed was "Age 12, Love With A Little L" , before we watched this film Jennifer Montgomery talked a lil bit about it, she described it as dirty, sexual, role circles, psycho social dinamics. Jennifer Montgomery manufactured the psychadelic look of the film in the end of this film, she "embrassed it to show control", TERRITORIAL PISSINGS, in this film we saw a shot of a girl removing her under wear from under her skirt and pissing on a roof until she was done then she pulled her underwear back up and walk out of view. marking her terf so to speak!
Power, relationships between girls, "tweens", fragmented. Lassie = Porky's Joke. In this film we saw a girl on all fours acting and sounding like a dog, being trained by another trainer type girl , giving commands. I can't really explain it but when i saw that scene in the movie it made me think of the scene from Porky's when they show the the two gym teachers having sex and it is revealed to the audiance why she is called LASSY by the other male teachers at the school. I had thought that Jennifer may have been make a play on that scene or did with out knowing it, because when i had asked her about it she didn't even know that Porky's was a movie. So I guess that was more of a happy/joke for my enjoyment. This movie had alot going on in it, and to be sure i wasn't really sure what else to get out of it . This film wasn't the most shocking film i had ever scene but it had it's moments, it wasn't the oddest film i had ever scene but i it had it's moments,

The last film that we saw i liked a lil bit more then ,"Age 12, Love With A Little L", and this film, Notes of the Death of Kodachrome", dv,video, super8 film. This film was about Jennifer Montgomery reconnecting with old friends by asking for old equipment back that had been borrowed for years. In the film Jennifer traveled to San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland. The film went on as Jennifer Montgomery reconnected with had reconnected with her friends had gotten most of her stuff back, until we come to the last friend and she reveals to fim on camera this dream she had way back in 1986 and that it had stuck with her, and then she showed us this in her film. I asked her about her dream after the class was over and she had said she had gotten everything in the dream froma friend, the footage of the puppets was something she had filmed when she worked at a theater, and the advice she recommended for filming something that or a dream was to wait ten years and really give it thought to understand what it is and then if you still want to film it and show it then you should go do it. I thought that it was a big step for anyone to do, to film a dream you had and then show your audiance what was going on in your head as you dreamed, really put your self out there. Like i said before I liked this film a lil bit better then ,Age 12..., After the class was over and i was able to talk with Jennifer Montgomery a while, I thought about everything, the class, the screenings, talking with Jennifer Montgomery & just in general what i got out of it. I am still thinking about the anwsers to these questions, and overall i feel i am glad i was able to see these screenings and with what i said above i think that is all i have to say about Jennifer Montgomery's showing.