Early life DeMott was born on April 22, 1947, in
Washington, DC, and raised in
Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended public school in Amherst before attending an English school in Portugal for a "happy year" and what she described as a "girls’ cloister in Northampton" for "three miserable years". Kreines was hired by factory worker and first-time director
Donald G. Jackson as cameraman for his feature
The Demon Lover (1976), a low budget horror film which would shoot in Michigan. Kreines and DeMott drove to Michigan, and DeMott documented the journey and production in her second film
Demon Lover Diary, which was released in 1980. The film was praised by critics and won the
1980 Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award, sharing the prize with
Journeys From Berlin by
Yvonne Rainer, a category which was introduced that year. DeMott assisted her father,
Benjamin DeMott, with research for three books.
Personal life DeMott lived in
Coosada, Alabama. She collected outsider art with her partner, Jeff Kreines. ==Death==