Just Like Us
15:00, Video, 2013

A familiar landscape of box stores and parking lots proves a rich site for longing. Celebrities observed in this environment and are reduced to ordinary beings in the process. A curious narrator reveals little moments of subjectivity that evidence the paradox of connection and belonging within systems that simultaneously contain us and comprise us. 

A banal and familiar landscape comprised of 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. Contact me if you'd like a preview link - jessemclean@gmail.com Distributed by Video Data Bank vdb.org

SCREENINGS + EXHIBITIONS:

Art Athina, Faliron Pavilion, CitizenFive Video Section, Athens, Greece
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, Paris, France
Fronteira Festival, Cine Cultura, Goiânia, Brazil
Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany (FIPRESCI prize)
Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Film Society Lincoln Center, Art of the Real, New York, NY
Rome Film Festival, Cinema XXI, Rome, Italy