Jodi Wille

Jodi Wille is a book editor, filmmaker, and cultural event producer known for collaborating with individuals who have amassed personal archives that document American subcultures. She is the co-publisher and editor of Process Media and Dilettante Press.

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Book publishing and editing

In 1998, Wille co-founded (with Steve Nalepa, Nick Rubenstein, and Hedi El Kholti) Dilettante Press, a publishing house with a focus on outsider, visionary, and vernacular art and photography.[1] Wille conceptualized and co-edited (with El Kholti) the book Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan by amateur photographer Gary Lee Boas, which is featured in Martin Parr’s History of Photography II as one of the 200 most important photography books of the last 30 years.

In 2005, Wille and Adam Parfrey of Feral House founded Process Media, with an emphasis on non-fiction books that explore American subcultures and document groundbreaking musicians such as Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, John Sinclair and MC5, Ya Ho Wa 13 and Father Yod, and Moondog. Process has also created a "Self-Reliance Series" of illustrated guide books that promote sustainable and self-sufficient living.

Selected Works

Awards

Filmmaking and Photography

Wille has also worked as a documentarian, commercial photographer, music video director, and television field producer,[3] collaborating with artists Vincent Gallo, Melissa Etheridge, The Dwarves, Sparks and R.E.M., among others.

Wille spent five years documenting a Los Angeles sect known as "The Universal World Church." She directed a Christmas special for the church called "God Bless America."

Wille is the director of "The Source Family" documentary, currently in production and based on the story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family.

References

  1. ^ La Weekly: The Outsiders
  2. ^ Publishers Weekly: Outsider Artbook
  3. ^ LA Weekly: Feral Child

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