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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Jesse McLean

Jesse MCLEAN (1975, USA) was educated in Fine Arts at Oberlin College and majored in Film at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She has presented her work at several festivals in Europe and the USA. McLean’s films have won awards on festivals such as the 2015 Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival and the 2016 Nonplussed Fest. In 2014 she was a featured artist at Flaherty Seminar and a MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow in 2016.

Filmography

(selection, all short) Crisis (2006), The Eternal Quarter Inch (2008), Somewhere Only We Know (2009), The Burning Blue (2009), Magic for Beginners (2010), Lose Yourself (2011), Remote (2011), The Invisible World (2012), Just Like Us (2013), I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining (2015, short doc), See a dog, hear a dog (2016)

Jesse McLean at IFFR

  • The Invisible World

    Study into the origins of materialism and its relationship with human nature.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Curious Fantasies

    A close reading of the characteristics of perfume in advertisements leads to criticism of the celebrity cult. The rich get richer, but everyone smells

    • Wait and See

  • See a Dog, Hear a Dog

    Analytical tragicomedy about humans and their desire to communicate with others, animals and machines. Luckily technology provides ingenious algo

    • Bright Future Short

  • I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining

    Experimental portrait of famous Hollywood actress’s stand-in provides an exciting look at the glamourous world of film. What is real, what isn’t?

    • As Long As It Takes: Short

  • Remote

    In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers.

    • Spectrum Shorts