Joe Fenstermaker

Biography
Joe Fenstermaker is a Hampshire alum who is, for the 2009-2010 school year, the Film/Photo/Video alumni intern. In his student years, Joe studied documentary film with segues into film history; his Div 3, 'A Film About Friends,' explored the Quaker 'peace testimony' through its manifestation in the lives of several local Quakers. He calls Seattle home, but actually comes from Sammamish, which is a suburb outside of Seattle. He also calls himself Joe, but his real name is Jeffrey, which occasionally causes confusion. Joestudied abroad in London in Summer 2007, where he took film and history classes and managed to take so many digital pictures that his lens stoped working.

For the first two years at Hampshire (2005-2007), Joe lived on F4 with Aliya, Elizabeth, and Kerianne, then found that he couldn't live without them and lived with them again, in Greenwich 16 and Enfield 66. Though often busy, he nonetheless found time in these years to bake cupcakes, watch German Expressionist films, and vacuum flies off the ceiling. Nine out of ten popes agree - he makes a mean risotto!

Before comming to Hampshire, Joe attended from 7th through 12th grade (1999-2005) the International Community School, in Kirkland Washington—a public school with a funny name.

Academics
Joe Fenstermaker's Div III is peacefully completed.

Community Involvement
Joe divides his time between Mod 16, Mod 66, and the film-photo building. If this sentence were a pie chart, the distribution would be as follows: Mod 16, chocolate pie; mod 28, chess pie; mod 10, cherry pie with brandy in it; film-photo building, mud pie. Joe also likes cars and driving places in his Subaru Legacy. He has explored Western Mass very completely in the last three years and has met many interesting people in the process. 94.3% of these people were members of the AARP.

Ludditism
Joe rather dislikes the Internet, and yet for some reason he has a pretty pimped out Hampedia page. This is shocking and absurd. He should endeavor to learn more about the Internet as well as cinema history posthaste! If he did, he would know that the kinetoscope (that is to say, early Film) too was regarded as nothing more than a novelty, and that the Opera was the respected area of Art. Well, well, well, at the end of the day Opera was just too expensive and became a novelty itself, much in the same way that film will inevitably give way to video, regardless of what film buffs may say. This ain't no Democracy, yo! Eat it!

Chris Semple

(P.S. Thanks for the Hampedia page!)

Cars


At home, Joe drives a 1966 Alfa Romeo Guilia Sprint GT that he bought in highschool. Joe is also a member of the Alfa Romeo Owners club of New England (AONE). First Year Student in 2005