Jesse McLean Movies

Amid a pandemic and a failing marriage, a woman retreats into obsessive fantasy. A film star becomes her companion as the boundaries between reality...

Generous and imaginative film about the inner life of houseplants, which takes other life forms seriously with creative and artistic originality. A...

A driving disco beat demands that you nod your head while an ever-shifting sunset doles out questionable advice culled from the top of the pop charts.

The “spinning newspaper” trope is a clichéd cinematic device that is used both to introduce major events and show the passage of...

The language and imagery related to celebrity perfumes are a starting point to think about consumer desires and the corruptness of branding. As if a...

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

In the video Trust Falls, the subject stares outward, becoming another viewer. This viewer leans back, falling into a cinematic void and trusting...

A cursor drags its way up an endless cascade of digital mountains.

The underlying structure of the application Adobe Photoshop, popular software used for retouching and manipulating photographic images, is revealed...

Magic for Beginners examines the mythologies found in fan culture, from longing to obsession to psychic connections. The need for such connections...

Dipping between ecstasy and despair, transcendence and absurdity, this movie journeys to a hidden space where you can lose your way, lose yourself in...

A familiar landscape of box stores and parking lots proves a rich site for longing. Celebrities observed in this environment and are reduced to...

What can a face reveal? Balanced between composure and collapse, individuals anxiously await their fate.

Anecdotally, Andy Warhol once asked the Velvet Underground that the record bearing his name be inscribed with a purposeful skip during the song...

A deceased hoarder, reconstituted through technology, recounts a difficult childhood as inhabitants of a virtual world struggle to reconcile...

This tragicomic analysis of communication between humans, animals, and machines was made with original video footage, computer animations, and...

Jesse McLean’s The Burning Blue also touches on the relationship between the public and private experiences of historical events. Working with...

Assisted by a buoyant electro-acoustic soundtrack, McLean maps an evocative cross-country travelogue through elegantly illustrated postcards and the...

And oldie from the vaults! Shot on Super8, transferred to video, then rephotographed on 16mm. Or, in the words of John Columbus from Black Maria...