Sarah Jacobson

Born in 1971 Connecticut, USA, Jacobson studied film at Bard College, whose teaching methods she criticised in many of the films she made. She's best known for the shorts she made as part of her courses at this institution, such as Road Movie Or What I Learned in a Buick Station Wagon (1992) and I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (1993). Both were inspired by the post-punk movement and produced on a shoestring. After graduating from university, Sarah Jacobson made the film Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1996), which boosted her popularity in underground circles and was screened at numerous festivals linked to that movement. Towards the end of her film career, Jacobson wrote Sleaze, a screenplay that was never shot and which portrays the life of an all-female band. Jacobson was involved in numerous collective projects such as the Joanie4Jackie zine promoted by Miranda July, as well as writing the STIGMA Manifesto (Sisters Together In Girlie Movie-Making Action), in which she defended the importance of women's work in the film industry.