Just Like Us (16+)
USA, 2013, colour, 15 min.
Director: Jesse McLean
Director: Jesse McLean
A familiar landscape comprised of big-box stores and parking lots proves a rich site for longing, intimacy, and radical change. Celebrities are observed in this environment and are reduced to ordinary beings in the process. An enigmatic protagonist reveals little moments of subjectivity that escape into the piece like a contaminant, rupturing the view and evidencing the paradox of connection and belonging within systems that simultaneously contain us and comprise us.
AWARDS
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen: FIPRESCI Prize
Russian premier
Jesse McLean
Jesse McLean
is a media artist whose research is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, and is concerned with both the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring people together. She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at University of Iowa.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Eternal Quarter Inch, 2008; Somewhere only we know, 2009; The Burning Blue, 2009; Magic for Beginners, 2010; Remote, 2011; The Invisible World, 2012; Just Like Us, 2013.
USA, 2013, colour, 15 min.
Director: Jesse McLean
Director: Jesse McLean
A familiar landscape comprised of big-box stores and parking lots proves a rich site for longing, intimacy, and radical change. Celebrities are observed in this environment and are reduced to ordinary beings in the process. An enigmatic protagonist reveals little moments of subjectivity that escape into the piece like a contaminant, rupturing the view and evidencing the paradox of connection and belonging within systems that simultaneously contain us and comprise us.
AWARDS
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen: FIPRESCI Prize
Russian premier