Amy Jenkins
Amy Jenkins is an award-winning American artist whose installations, films, and photography have been exhibited, screened and collected internationally. Her multimedia works, which focus on themes such as familial relationships, desire, and gender identity, have been shown at museums including The Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; and Palm Beach ICA, FL.
INSTRUCTIONS ON PARTING , Jenkins’ first documentary feature, won Best Feature Documentary at Athens International Film and Video Festival, OH, and screened at festivals including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight, NY 2018 (Premiere), Montclair Film Festival, NJ; Independent Film Festival Boston, MA; Sydney Film Festival, Australia, and DOXA, Vancouver. View the film at: https://www.on-parting.com. Her recent short film WISHES premiered at the Camden International Film Festival in 2019, and screened at festivals including Salem, Ashland Independent, Frameline, OutfestLA, Sidewalk, NewFest, New Orleans, among others.
Jenkins was awarded the 2022-23 Harvard Film Studies Center-LEF Fellowship, the 2019 Ewing Award for Interdisciplinary Art, and the 2018 Filmmaker of the Year by New Hampshire Film Festival. A Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, her work has also been supported by LEF Foundation, Perspective Fund, IFP, Points North Institute, NH State Council for the Arts, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Berkshire Taconic A.R.T. Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation, and the Experimental Television Center. Her artwork has been reviewed in many publications, including The New York Times, ARTnews, Bomb, Artcritical, Performing Arts Journal, and The Village Voice.
ADAM’S APPLE, Jenkins’ feature documentary-in-progress, is an intimate exploration of what characterizes “maleness” for today’s gender-redefining youth, filmed from the perspectives of Director Amy Jenkins and her teenage transgender son, Adam. Vérité and artistic imagery chronicle the evolution of Adam’s identity beginning at toddlerhood, unveiling the ever-shifting family dynamic as Adam charts his path toward manhood. Visit the film’s website: https://www.adamsapplefilm.com