Class of 1993

Jenny Perlin’s feature documentary film Bunker (2021) opened the Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 Doc Fortnight Film Festival. The film has also played at the Museum of the Moving Image’s “First Look/Science on Screen” festival, the Indie Memphis Festival, and others. Bunker investigates the lonely lives of American men who have decided to live in decommissioned military bunkers and nuclear missile silos, and follows the process of building and selling these structures to the wealthy and not-so-wealthy alike. Jenny Perlin makes 16mm films, videos, and animations. Her films incorporate stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history, and all her projects look closely at ways in which social machinations are reflected in the fragments of daily life. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and film festivals, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Rotterdam Film Festival.