Jesse Lerner
& his Films
Los Angeles, CA
(Sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship Program)
12:00-2:00pm en G318
12:00-2:00pm in G318
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Una charla con / A
conversation with:
(Sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship Program)
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| Jueves, 4 de Marzo
12:00-2:00pm en G318 |
Thursday, March 4th
12:00-2:00pm in G318 |
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| Jesse's unconventional approach to documentary
film making deconstructs and reconstructs narratives of displacement on
both sides of The Border, challenging facile and deterministic formations
of identity. With a complex mix of text and images, his films excavate
the social dynamics of cultural politics of representations in places like
Los Angeles, The Border and Mexico City
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As a curator he has organized Mexperimental
(coming to the Guggenheim in New York this summer) which is a seminal
collection of films from the avant-garde movement of Mexican cinema from
the1930's - 1990's.
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| Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker baseed in Los Angeles. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Anthropolgy in Mexico City, the Reina Sofia Museum in Spain, The Sydney Biennale, The Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other festivals and museums internationally. His short film Natives (1991, with Scott Sterling) and the future-lenght experimental documentaries Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995, with Ruben Ortiz-Torres) and Ruins (1998) have won numerous prizes at film festivals in the United States, latin America, and Japan. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, his critical essays on photography, film, and video have appeared in Afterimage, History of Photography, Visual Anthropolgy Review, Blimp Film Magazine, Wide Angle, Poliester, Coil, and other media journals. As a media arts curator, he has organized several exhibitions, including The Mexperimental Cinema, a traveling retrospective of 60 years of avant-garde film and video from Mexico, which has been presented at the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the National University (UNAM) in Mexico City, and this coming summer at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, He has taught at the University of California San Diego, Bennington College, California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), Southern California INstitute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), El Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City and is currently the MacArthur Assistant professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, amember of the Clearmont Colleges. | ||