{"id":1926,"date":"2021-12-05T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/?page_id=1926"},"modified":"2021-12-05T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T23:20:50","slug":"official-selection-skate-by-jennifer-piper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/official-selection-skate-by-jennifer-piper\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate by Jennifer Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jennifer Piper | Australia | 1:00 | Short<\/strong><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is it so much harder to have fun as we get older? How much effort does it take to pick up the skates that\u2019ve been sitting in the corner of the room for years? Is it even worth trying?<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approaching 40 and isolated in lockdown, a filmmaker from Melbourne picks up the roller skates they\u2019ve dreamed of trying for more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A love letter to middle-age, trying new things, and having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Biography \u2013&nbsp;Jennifer Piper<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/ff-storage-p01\/press_kits\/headshots\/001\/709\/570\/original\/319d289234-headshot.jpg?1637751883\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer \u2018JP\u2019 Piper is a multidisciplinary storyteller who loves messing with the boundaries of the art form. In 2019, JP created \u2018The Representation Hour\u2019 for Triple Bi-Pass on JOYFM Melbourne, exploring queer representation in pop culture. Her stageplays A Scandal in the Weimar and That Time Everything Went Well And We Were Totally Fine are published via Australian Plays and her short films, Facing the Future, At Home with Anne Ziet\u00e9, skate. and Breakfast Tea \u2013 all created in isolation during Melbourne lockdown \u2013 have enjoyed official selection at various film festivals. This year, JP\u2019s academic writing will feature in a new text, Queering the Vampire Narrative, published by Brill | Sense.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Piper | Australia | 1:00 | Short Why is it so much harder to have fun as we get older? How much effort does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1926","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}