Jesse McLean

Known for DirectingPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Jesse McLean is a media artist and educator whose research is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, especially as presented and observed through mediated images. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, McLean's work asks the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant. She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Venice Film Festival, Italy; Transmediale, Berlin; 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Interstate Projects and PPOW Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Gallery 400, Chicago; Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. McLean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at University of Iowa.Read more

Movies & web series

Wherever You Go, There We Are

Lose Yourself

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Light Needs

Curious Fantasies

See a Dog, Hear a Dog

I'm in Pittsburgh and it's Raining

Just Like Us

The Invisible World

Trust Falls

Remote

Relations

Magic for Beginners

Somewhere Only We Know

Climbing

The Burning Blue

The Eternal Quarter Inch

Celebration of Lights

Clone