Maude Swift

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Maude Swift (born Jennifer Marie Colville, 26 October 1976 in New Haven) is a psedonym taken from the artist's great-grandmother and employed as an alibi for works of filmmaking, photography and acting. Other psedonyms of this person include Jenny Colville, Jennepher Colville, Maude Colville, Marie Guttman, Secretary Jenny, Miss Maudelyn and Muna Esker. (Under which psedonyms she has produced many other scattered and various things including Music, Art, Web Design; articles of Philosophy, Journalism, Art History, Theology, Cultural Studies, and Politics). She anticipates adding to her collection of derivative psedonyms and names of her great-grandmothers. Yuantia Swifty might be one to watch out for! She believes she has a 'right' to have as many names as a cat has. She is a revert to Islam. Her Muslim name is Maymuna.

She has appeared in the public access TV Show POX and in Doc Hammer's film Rub (2001). She appeared on Dame Darcy's Turn of The Century public access television show in various fictitious roles such as Secretary Jenny.

She has produced a few films of her own, most notably Maldorora and a Little Girl (2000) starring Lisa Hammer, a deconstructive look at femininity through Nietzsche, based on Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont. She currently lives in Brockley, South London and is in purgatorial pre-preproduction of a film based on Finnegan's Wake and is also piecing together a documentary to accompany her Doctoral thesis from Goldsmiths College on the representation of the September 11, 2001 attacks as Sublime(under the psedonym Maude Colville). Her other work under the pseudonym Maude Swift includes digital photography for Sharron Kraus, Little Annie (formerly Annie Anxiety), Andria Degens of Pantaleimon and David Tibet of Current 93.