Jesse McLean

Remote will screen as part of the 2012 Chicago Underground Film Festival. The festival runs from May 31-June 7 and is always full of great programs and lots of fun times.

Screening as part of the shorts program: The Dead Talk Back on Saturday, June 2 at 1:00pm.

SHORTS PROGRAM: THE DEAD TALK BACK
2010-2012, Various directors, Various nations, 85 min.

FOR ADOLFAS Joel Schlemowitz, 6 min., 16mm, 2011, USA
ONCE IT STARTED IT COULD NOT END OTHERWISE Kelly Sears, 8 min., Video, 2011,USA
REMOTE Jesse McLean, 11 min., Video, 2011, USA
DEJA VU DE JOUR Mike Olenick, 2 min., Video, 2012, USA
WANING Gina Haraszti, 8 min.,Video, 2011, Canada
BOMB SHELTER Colin Polombi, 3 min., Video, 2012, USA
MAURICE Patrick Kack-Brice, 18 min., Video, 2011, France/USA
RANSOM NOTES Kelly Egan, 4 min., 35mm, 2011, Canada   
COMING ATTRACTIONS Peter Tscherkassky, 25 min., 35mm, 2010, Austria

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Remote will screen as part of The Upper Crust program on May 26 (exact program order TBA) in the newly launched EFF (Experimental Film Festival) Portland 2012. The festival takes place in Portland, OR, May 19-27. Excited to be a part of a new fest! Other artists in the program include:

Dalibor Baric: Pain So Light That Appears as Tickle
Brent Coughenour: Work in Progress
Charles Fairbanks: Wrestling with my Father
Yohan Guignard: RECIFS
Jonesy: Beauty Must Suffer
Michael Lanagan and Terah Maher: Choros
Kerry Laitala: Chromatic Cocktail 180 Proof
Barton Lewis: East River Pavilion, Upper East Side, New York City
Jodie Mack: Future’s So Bright
Lindsay McIntyre: where she stood in the first place.
Jesse McLean: Remote
Slawomir Milewski: The Ecstasy of St. Agnes
Jeremy Moss: Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid
Peter Snowdon: Dieu est dans les racines (God is in the roots)
Richad Touhy: Etienne’s Hand

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Remote is screening as part of Crossroads: Moving Image Arts Festival, held at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco, festival takes place May 18-20. Screening is Program 1, Friday May 18 at 7:00pm.

SCREENING: Remote (2011) by Jesse McLean; Love Rose (2010) by Bobby Abate; Leonora (2011) by Eliane Lima; With-Me-Not-Me (2011) by Olivia Ciummo; Song for the Collectors (2011) by Tommy Becker; Craig’s Cutting Room Floor (2011) by Linda Scobie; One Way to Find Out (2012) by Scott Stark; The Pool (2011) by Christine Lucy Latimer; Araneae (Compound Eyes No. 4) (2011) by Paul Clipson; The Ape of Nature (2010) by Peggy Ahwesh

This program looks awesome!!! And the whole festival is not to be missed.

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Remote will screen on Sunday, May 20 at 2:15 in Group Program 6 as part of Migrating Forms. Other artists in the program include Lars Laumann and Benjamin A. Huseby, Erika Vogt, Shana Moulton, Jacob Ciocci, Leslie Thornton, Guthrie Lonergan and Dani Leventhal.

As usual, the entire festival, which takes place May 11-20 and is held at Anthology Film Archives, looks amazing!

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I’m very happy that Remote will play as part of the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Remote will screen Saturday, March 31 at 1pm in a program including Arthur Lipsett, Mike Hoolboom, Dani Levanthal, Ionut Piturescu, Shiloh Cinquemani and Tan Pin Pin. So excited for this program! I will be in attendance and can’t wait to see all the terrific work in the fest!

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Here’s a review of my solo show in Front Room, CAM St. Louis. Thanks!

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JESSE MCLEAN: REMOTE

Chicago-based artist Jesse McLean’s witty yet empathetic videos and installations examine the manipulative power of mass media while acknowledging her own complicit role as an impressionable viewer and consumer. Through selective, deliberate editing, her works isolate uncanny moments or phenomena – like YouTube videos of people singing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (the theme song from the 1997 film Titanic) – to uncover deeper insights into human behavior.

For her Front Room exhibition, McLean heightens the horror film genre’s classic trope of suspense. Her video Remote (2011) presents a compendium of appropriated and original imagery, along with equally banal sounds. McLean further throws the video’s atmospheric qualities into relief by installing black-painted picture frames and a black door in the gallery alongside the video. Taken together, these elements suggest how seemingly innocuous matter can become sinister and foreboding when framed within a horror-like context.

Jesse McLean: REMOTE is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and is curated by Kelly Shindler, Assistant Curator, and organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

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