Jane Weinstock

Jane Weinstock is an American film director and writer. Her films have been shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival. Her writings have been published in Art in America, Camera Obscura, m/f and October.

Education
Weinstock graduated from Princeton University and attended graduate programs at the Paris Film Program and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She received a masters from NYU in Cinema Studies.

Art and film writing
Before Weinstock became a filmmaker, she was an academic, who taught at NYU, UCLA, and CalArts. She regularly published writing on film theory through lenses of feminism and psychoanalysis in academic journals such as Camera Obscura, Screen, m/f, and October. She continues to publish art writing, and has written on the artists Suzanne Bocanegra, Jeff Wall, Barbara Kruger, John Cassavetes, Sally Potter, Martha Rosler, Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall, Barbara Bloom, Mary Kelly, and Christian Boltanski.

Film
Weinstock has written and directed two feature length films. The first, Easy, centers around a woman, played by Marguerite Moreau, and her romantic life. "I wanted to make a movie about relationships, about women who didn't have very good ones." Released in 2003, Easy was shown at Sundance and Toronto and was reviewed in the New York times and the Los Angeles Times.

Weinstock's second feature film, a psychological thriller, The Moment, was released in 2013, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Martin Henderson, Alia Shawkat, Mariane Jean-Baptiste and Meatloaf. The Moment premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Earlier in her career, while working towards a PhD in film studies and psychoanalytic theory that she did not finish, Weinstock co-wrote and co-directed a short film, Sigmund Freud's Dora, with Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall and Ivan Ward. The film screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Whitney Museum, the Collective for Living Cinema and the Whitechapel Gallery. Weinstock had a change of heart and pivoted her career towards actually making films. Weinstock went on to make Voices of Silence for German television. She then made The Clean Up, which played at the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Venice Film Festival.

She served as film and video curator for an exhibition entitled, Difference: On Representation and Sexuality, at the New Museum in New York in 1984-85 and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Personal life
Weinstock lives in New York City with her husband, artist James Welling.