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| Jytte Jensen with MoMA colleagues Larry Kardish and Rajendra Roy at New Directors/New Films in 2011. Photo by Godlis. |
"Jytte Jensen, a champion of international cinema and a leading figure in New York's film community, passed away Monday night after a battle with cancer. A friend and colleague to many here and around the world, Jensen was Curator in the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked for more than 30 years, most recently shaping the lineup for this week's New Directors/New Films Series produced by MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at MoMA, circulated a note Tuesday morning to the museum staff about her passing: "It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write today. Our admired and beloved colleague Jytte died last night after a fierce—but relatively short—-battle with cancer. Jytte first worked at MoMA in 1982 as a Research Assistant in the Circulating Film Library at MoMA. She was officially hired in 1984 as a Curatorial Assistant, and rose to become Curator in the Department of Film and Media in 2003."
Jensen is perhaps best known to frequenters of the Film Society through her work on the selection committee for New Directors/New Films, the annual series spotlighting up-and-coming filmmakers. The 44th edition of the event is currently underway through March 29.
At MoMA, she has organized hundreds of programs, including "Premiere Brazil!," "Global Lens," "Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films," a three-part Arab cinema survey called "Mapping Subjectivity," as well as "Discovering Georgian Cinema." She also curated monographic retrospectives on Bernard Bertolucci, Béla Tarr, Abbas Kiarostami, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Milos Forman, and many more."
Jensen is perhaps best known to frequenters of the Film Society through her work on the selection committee for New Directors/New Films, the annual series spotlighting up-and-coming filmmakers. The 44th edition of the event is currently underway through March 29.
At MoMA, she has organized hundreds of programs, including "Premiere Brazil!," "Global Lens," "Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films," a three-part Arab cinema survey called "Mapping Subjectivity," as well as "Discovering Georgian Cinema." She also curated monographic retrospectives on Bernard Bertolucci, Béla Tarr, Abbas Kiarostami, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Milos Forman, and many more."
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| Jytte Jensen with fellow New Directors/New Films selection committee members in 2013. Photo by Godlis. |
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| Jytte Jensen with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour at New Directors/New Films in 2014. Photo by Godlis. |
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