Jane Wodening

Jane Wodening
Jane Wodening c. 1970s
Born
Mary Jane Collom

(1936-09-07)September 7, 1936
DiedNovember 17, 2023(2023-11-17) (aged 87)
Occupationwriter
Years active1976–2023
Spouse
(m. 1957; div. 1987)
Children5

Mary Jane Wodening (née Collom; September 7, 1936 – November 17, 2023) was an American artist and writer. She is best known for her collaborations with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, to whom she was married from 1957 until 1987. During this period, she was known as Jane Brakhage.[1][2] Wodening featured in Brakhage's short film Window Water Baby Moving, in which her husband filmed her giving birth.

Wodening was an environmentalist and grew her own food and kept animals.

  1. ^ White, Jerry (2018). "Keeping It Personal: Untitled No. 6 of the Short Films of 1975". Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9781771123068.
  2. ^ Peterson, Jennifer (2020-04-01). "Barbara Hammer's Jane Brakhage: Feminism, Nature, and 1970s Experimental Film". Feminist Media Histories. 6 (2): 67–94. doi:10.1525/fmh.2020.6.2.67. S2CID 218845214.