BIVAF Exhibition Text - Thematic Relay
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Sujeong Han, 2024

Interview
Lina Tran, “Light Needs Documentary Asks: What Do We Owe Our Plants?”
Lake Effect, WUWM
April 23, 2024

Review
Matt Mueller, “Locally made doc “Light Needs” digs into the power of the houseplant”
OnMilwaukee
April 22, 2024

Review
Maxwell Courtright, “Light Needs” and “Parallel Botany” use the film medium as a means to map plant consciousness https://tonemadison.com/articles/light-needs-and-parallel-botany-map-plant-consciousness/
April 4, 2024

Review
Nicole Santé, CPH:DOX Dox: Award review: Light Needs, Business Doc Europe
https://businessdoceurope.com/cphdox-dox-award-light-needs-by-jesse-mclean/
March 23, 2023

Review
Jorge Espinoza Lasso, Review of “Light Needs”, the fascinating world of houseplants (CPH:DOX 2023), La Estatuilla https://laestatuilla.com/criticas/critica-light-needs-jesse-mclean/
March 22, 2023 (Spanish)

Review
Nicolas Bardot, Festival CPH:DOX: Critiques: Light Needs”
https://lepolyester.com/critique-light-needs/
March 26, 2023 (French)

Review
Chris Cassingham, “Saunas, Funkytown and the consciousness of plants at CPH:DOX 2023”,
https://lwlies.com/festivals/cphdox-2023/

Review
Niki Jensen, moovy.dk “CPH:DOX Review: Light Needs”,
https://www.moovy.dk/moovyexclusive/film/CPH-DOX-omtale-Light-Needs (Danish)

Review
Jacob Ludvigsen, “15 MUST SEE FILMS AT THIS YEAR'S BIG CPH:DOX FESTIVAL”
Soundvenue
12. MAR. 2023

Review
Kerry Cardoza, “The Tenuity of Truth: Weinberg/Newton Exhibition Situates Art in Our Post-Factual Era”
Newcity
March 10, 2020 

Interview
Tara Karajica, “6 QUESTIONS TO… JOHANNA PYYKKÖ, JESSE MCLEAN AND DIANA VIDRASCU”
Fade to Her, Dec. 16, 2019

Interview
Luka Ostojić, "Interview with Jesse McLean”, Kulturepunkt, Sept. 30, 2018
(In Croatian, English translation available)

Review
Nathaniel Stern, "Jesse McLean's When It Rains, It Pours at Green Gallery", implicit art, April 21, 2018

Interview
Z. W. Lewis, "Postcards from the Edge: An Interview with Jesse McLean", Notebook Interview, MUBI, Nov. 9, 2017

Review
Almudena Escobar López, "New York Film Festival's Projections 2017", MUBI, Oct. 30, 2017

Interview
Eli Horwatt, “Connect and Rupture: Jesse McLean on See a Dog, Hear a Dog,” Millenium Film Journal, No. 65, Spring 2017

Interview
Christian Holler, “Sich in ein Medium hineinbeamen”, Kunstforum, 2016

Interview
Brett Kashmere,“You’ve Got to Look into the Light: An Interview with Jesse McLean,” INCITE, Issue 6: Forever, Fall 2015

Interview
Kenta Murakami, “Jesse McLean: Q+A”, Digital America, January 2015,

Interview
Pamela Cohn, “Jesse McLean: Celebrity, language and the pull of popular culture”, Bomb Magazine , June  2014

Review
James Hansen, “Old and New: The 60th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival”, Filmmaker Magazine, June 2014

Review
Lars Henrik Gass, “Die Videos von Jesse McLean”, Springerin, January 2014 

Review
Colin Beckett, “In the Internet Age, Footage Finds You: On Jesse McLean”, The L Magazine, October 2013

Review
Michael Sicinski, “Between the Walls: Images Festival 2013”, Cinema Scope, October 2013

Interview
Jesse Malmed, “The Link to Reality Stretches but Doesn’t Break: An Interview with Jesse McLean”, Bad at Sports, January 2012

Interview
“G-Chat,” Jacob Ciocci and Jesse McLean, INCITE, Issue 3: New Ages, published 2012

Review
David Finkelstein,“Magic for Beginners”, Film Threat, September, 14, 2012

Review
Zachary Cahill, “Jesse McLean – Critics’ Pick”, artforum.com

Review
Tom McCormack “Heaven and Earth and Television Magic: The Cinema of Jesse McLean”,  Cinema Scope, April 1, 2011

Interview
Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean, “Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean interview each other,” Conversations at the Edge, September 22, 2010 

Review
Nicholas O’Brien, “Center Field – Is Local Needed? Netart in the Midwest”, Art21 blog, Nov. 23, 2010

Review
Adi Chesson, “Look into the light”, Format Court, Sept. 17, 2010