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  • Concealer | Short Film Teaser Trailer

    Concealer is an avant-garde short film about a woman's permissibility in the world.

    Festival screenings and awards:
    Lakefront Film Festival

    Southside Film Festival
    Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival
    North Beach American Film Festival
    Ocean City Film Festival
    Halfway There Film Festival (Best Direction, Best Non-Narrative Film)
    Baltimore Student Film Showcase
    Reel Independent Film Extravaganza
    Wheaton Film Festival
    Reading Film Festival
    Southern Maryland Film Festival (Audience Award for Suspense)

  • School Nights
    School Nights

    School Nights is a zine and collection of poetry written throughout high school and college years.

    Available for Purchase
  • Names
    Names

    A poem featured in Gallery 220's March 2023 exhibition "A Celebration of Women's History Month" in Havre de Grace, MD.

About Jenna

Jenna Cipolloni is a Baltimore-based writer and filmmaker whose passion for people and places has crossed into the collaborative avenue of film. Jenna's debut short film "Concealer" has been shown in numerous film festivals across the mid-Atlantic, including screenings at the Parkway Theatre and Creative Alliance, and words from their self-published zine "School Nights" have appeared in art galleries and won local poetry slams.

Jenna studied film and mass communication… more

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Concealer

Just shy of a five-minute runtime, Concealer is an avant-garde short film that explores the suggested obscenity and permissibility of the feminized body.

This film expresses my angst as a genderqueer individual who does not fully identify with womanhood, yet is held to feminine standards and society at large telling me that my body is inherently indecent and should be hidden. This can be taken in the most literal sense by dubbing a woman's body obscene and censoring nipples and breasts, as well as a more representative sense of  expecting one to cover socially-deemed flaws of the natural body including pores and cellulite. But it also affects something deeper; the general sense that a woman needs to fundamentally change herself in order to be not only acceptable to the outside world, but allowable--including her personality, overall disposition, and desires.

Concealer is my way of announcing to the world that my body and I are not a flaw, that we exist in and of ourselves, and, frankly, that if our naked existence (both literally and metaphorically) distresses you: grow up.

  • Concealer | Short Film Teaser Trailer

    Concealer is an avant-garde short film about a woman's permissibility in the world.

    Festival screenings and awards:
    Lakefront Film Festival

    Southside Film Festival
    Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival
    North Beach American Film Festival
    Ocean City Film Festival
    Halfway There Film Festival (Best Direction, Best Non-Narrative Film)
    Baltimore Student Film Showcase
    Reel Independent Film Extravaganza
    Wheaton Film Festival
    Reading Film Festival
    Southern Maryland Film Festival (Audience Award for Suspense)

  • Concealer Still 1
    Concealer Still 1
  • Concealer Still 2
    Concealer Still 2

School Nights

School Nights is a zine and collection of poetry written throughout my high school and college careers. Beginning light and rhythmic and then evolving into contemplative free-form, these poems were penned as I navigated relationships, identity, change, and heartbreak over the course of eight years throughout my youth.

Cover art by Nic Koski.

  • Size
    Size
  • Front Cover
    Front Cover
    Cover art by Nic Koski.
  • Inner Pages
    Inner Pages

Names

"Names" is a poem about the way language in a patriarchal society affects identity and self-image.

First released as vinyl engraved on a wall in March 2023 for the exhibition "A Celebration of Women's History Month" at Gallery 220 in Havre de Grace, MD.

  • Jenna and exhibition curator Liz Lawson next to Names
    Jenna and exhibition curator Liz Lawson next to "Names"
  • Names
    Names
  • Names excerpt
    "Names" excerpt