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In 2003 Elster's debut feature, Particles of Truth, which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in, premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel and Netflix. Ī native New Yorker, Elster was greatly affected by 9/11 and cited the experience as 'an inevitable influence' on her work and life. Dirty and Ill Will were both shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2001. Elster made her first short films on shoe-string budgets.

Elster online 2013 series#

In 2000 she held her first private art show at the Shooting Gallery, exhibiting a series of stencil canvases and screening an experimental film. In the late 90s, she began making experimental films. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including covers and stories for Rolling Stone, The Face, Dazed, and Time Magazine. She then left to pursue her obsession with writing, but was sought after for her unique aesthetic and ended up styling such artists as the late David Bowie for Outside, Chloe Sevigny, Shirley Manson, Trent Reznor, Isabella Rossellini, and Kate Winslet. She quickly got promoted to Market Editor and then stylist. Elster began her career at Conde Nast, working as a fashion assistant at Mademoiselle to subsidize her college tuition. She attended New York University, majoring in psychology and writing and graduated with honors. As a teenager, she began doing performance dance in the underground art scene at clubs such as The Garage, Tunnel, Fun House, and M.K. She created sculptures of people and directed plays and wherever else her imagination took her as a child. Elster obsessively wrote as soon as she was able to write.

She began creating art at an early age as a way to deal with the harshness of reality. Jennifer Elster was born and raised in New York City. Her work focuses on the complexities of humanity and the ongoing fight for social justices. Elster's performance and video art have been exhibited at the New Museum and Central Booking gallery, in group shows with artists, such as Jonas Mekas and the late Kate Millett, and she has performed at such galleries as Signs and Symbols Gallery, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, and The Development Underground. In the Woods (and Elsewhere), which features subjects such as Terrence Howard, Debra Winger, Questlove, Rosie Perez, and Dave Matthews, among others. Elster conceived and directed her upcoming fourteen year film project. She is best known for her performance artwork, her solo multidisciplinary exhibitions, The Retrospective of an Extroverted Recluse, and The Wake The F*ck Up Show, as well as her artistic collaborations transforming the late David Bowie into different characters and having written lyrics Yoko Ono performed for the online cinematic excursion Elster helmed entitled ITW Pathway featuring Will Oldham and the late Glenn O'Brien. She is the founder of The Development, a film and art studio based in New York City. Jennifer Elster is an American experimental artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, musician, and performer.

Filmmaker, writer, artist, performer, photographer