JANE GILLOOLY is a non-fiction and narrative film/video maker committed to working inside and outside of the traditional venues for art and cinema—not only broadening ideas of socially conscious work in the realm of contemporary media arts, but also creatively expanding notions of documentary used for social dialogue. Her work is inspired and informed by a century of non-fiction filmmaking, silent and vintage cinema, and activism.
She is currently in production with "The Suitcase of Love and Shame," an experimental non-fiction project drawing on 60 hours of a 1960's audio diary discovered in a suitcase purchased on eBay.
Her most recent non-fiction feature, shot in Swaziland, "Today The Hawk Takes One Chick" (2008) premiered at the ICA in Boston and is currently touring internationally. Earlier work includes "Leona's Sister Gerri" (1995); produced for PBS and included in the 2007 release of the Best Of P.O.V. "The Not Dead Yet Club" (2004) and "Splendor" (2006), "Dragonflies, The Baby Cries" (2000) and the co-production "Theme: Murder" (1998).
She has had one-person screening/exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Detroit Institute of Art and the National Gallery, D.C., and broadcasts on PBS and the SUNDANCE Channel.
Along with her partner Ken Winokur she is the co-founder of BOX 5, a production company dedicated to the collection of silent cinema acquired for the purpose of restoration and distribution. Restorations include "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925-29) and "The Eagle" (1925). The current project under development is the "Son of the Sheik" (1926).
Gillooly has a background in photography, design and interdisciplinary media. She is a current recipient of the LEF Foundations Moving Image Fund Award for Production and a recent Massachusetts Cultural Council and MacDowell Fellow.
