Milwaukee Film Festival
Light Needs
Milwaukee, WI
2024
Athens Film and Video Festival
Light Needs
Athens, OH
April 11, 2024
Wisconsin Film Festival
Light Needs
Madison, WI
April 6, 2024
No Studios: Filmmaker Showcase
I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining
Milwaukee, WI
March 10, 2024
Frames of Reference
Two solo programs
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
Feb. 27, 28, 2024
World of Knowledge Festival
Light Needs
St. Petersburg, Russia
November 16-20, 2023
Kassel Dokfest
Light Needs
Kassel, Germany
November 14-19, 2023
v01ces
The (Human) Voice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
November 11, 2023 - January 14, 2024
Imagine Science Films
Science New Wave Festival
New York, NY
October 20-17, 2023
Bergen International Film Festival
Light Needs
Bergen, Norway
October 18 - 26, 2023
Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival
Paradise Cinema
Toronto, Canada
October 12-24, 2023
Innsbrück Nature Film Festival
Light Needs
Innsbück, Tyrol, Austria
October 19-22, 2023
Seoul Animal Film Festival
Light Needs
Seoul, S. Korea
October 19-23, 2023
DokuBaku IDFF
Light Needs
Azerbaijan
September 26 - October 1, 2023
MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival
Light Needs
Skopje, North Macedonia
August 17 - 24, 2023
Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival
Light Needs
Savonlinna, Finland
August, 17-20 2023
Roskilde Culture Cinema
Light Needs
Roskilde, Denmark
August 19, 2023
BEAT Festival
Russian Premiere of Light Needs
June 13, 2023
e-flux Video & Film Staff Picks
June 1-30, 2023
CPH:DOX
World Premiere of Light Needs
Screening in the main competition program
March 15-26, 2023
Takeover
e-flux film and video
curated by Julian Ross
September 22 - December 15, 2022
IMPAKT Festival
The Animal Paradox
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Nov 3-4, 2022
Arroyo Seco Cine Club
Art in The Park
Los Angeles, CA
September, 2022
Bunjil Place
The Mother of All Data
curated by Anita Spooner
June - November 2022
The Nightingale Cinema
Farewell (for now) Festival
Chicago, IL
April 24, 2022
STILL LIFE
DeVos Art Museum
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
January 21 - March 25, 2022
Rooftop Filmmakers Fund Grantee for Light Needs
Irving Harvey Color Correction Grant
Awarded 2021
New York, NY
Athens International Film + Video Festival
October 15-24, 2021
Athens, OH
First Look 20/21
Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater
Astoria, Queens, NY
July 31, 2021
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Juror
Chicago, IL
June 9 - 13, 2021
Labocine - May issue “Wanderlust”
Imagine Science Films
May 4 - May 31, 2021
THIS IS SHORT Festival
Home Entertainment program in Festival Windows
Vienna, Austria
May 27 - June 1, 2021
The Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
March 23 - April 5, 2021
Online program
True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films
e-flux
February 23 - March 8, 2021
Antimatter
Victoria, BC Canada
October 14-24, 2020
Gus Fisher Gallery
The Medium is the Message
Television Now and Then
Auckland, New Zealand
1 August – 17 October
VIDEOEX
22. Edition
Experimentalfilm & Video Festival
Zurich Switzerland
11 - 20 September 2020
10 East Arts Video Drive-in
East 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Sept 11-17, 2020
That One Film Festival
live streaming event September 11 – 12, 2020
Crossroads 2020
Livestream premiere: Thursday, August 27 7pm PST
Besides the Screen Conference
Federal University of Espírito Santo
Espírito Santo, Brazil
Aug. 1, 2020
I Hate the internet: Techno-Dystopian Malaise and Visions of Rebellion
San Francisco Cinematheque Video Channel
Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Online through May 16, 2020
Late Capital TV
Flatland
Chicago, IL
Streaming May 14/15, 2020
Onion City: Experimental Film + Video Festival
March 12-15, 2020
Chicago, IL
Online version - June 20, 2020
Jury Prize
Museum of the Moving Image
First Look Festival
March 11-15, 2020
New York, NY
(suspended due to Covid-19)
Cosmic Rays
March 5-6, 2020
Chapel Hill, NC
Hyperlinks
Static Vision
Feb. 2020
Sydney, Australia
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Return to the Everywhere
Jan. 24 - April 4, 2020
Chicago, IL
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Wait and See section
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jan. 22-Feb. 1, 2020
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art
Beyond borders. Processed Body - Expanded Brain
Gdansk, Poland
Jan. 16, 2020
Til Vægs
Jan. 10 - through March, 2020
Copenhagen, Denmark
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Competition screening
Winterthur, Switzerland
Nov. 6-11, 2019
Sight Unseen
Solo screening
Parkway Theater, Baltimore, MD
October 30, 2019
Museum of the Moving Image
To the Stars: Experimental Inspirations for Ad Astra
Astoria, NY
Oct. 12, 2019
EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival
Juror screening
Seoul, Korea
July 22-Aug. 1, 2019
Syros International Film Festival
Syros, Greece
July 16-21, 2019
2019 Yebizo Festival of Art + Alternative Visions
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Feb. 8-24, 2019
November Film Festival
Close-Up Film Centre
London, UK
Nov. 22-25, 2018
Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture
Spectral Exchange
San Sebastian, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain
Nov. 16-17, 2018
Coe College - Film and Art Festival
Sinclair Galleries
Cedar Rapids, IA
Nov. 9-10, 2018
Ski Club >>> High Desert Test Site
Twenty-Nine Palms, CA
Oct. 27-28, 2018
Imagine Science Film Festival
Spectacle Theater
Oct. 12-19, 2018
New York, NY
25FPS
Juror Presentation
Zagreb, Croatia
Sept. 27-30, 2018
Interview
Luka Ostojić, "Interview with Jesse McLean”, Kulturepunkt, Sept. 30, 2018
(In Croatian, English translation available)
Nohl 15th Anniversary Screening
Working Things Out Program - curated by Ben Balcom
Charles Allis Art Museum
Milwaukee, WI
Sept. 13, 2018 - 6:30pm
SCREEN Projects - UB Art Galleries
Buffalo, NY
Aug. 1 - Sept. 5, 2018
Mothlight Cinema at Lightbox
Image Bearings: New Video Work by Women in the Midwest
Programmed by Sally Lawton
Detroit, MI
Aug. 10, 2018 - 8pm
PARALLAX
Institut für Alles Mögliche - ZENTRALE
Curated by Curt Miller
Berlin, Germany
July 19, 2018
FRONT International
Microlights curated program "The End of Things"
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, OH
July 14 - Sept. 30, 2018
EXiS 2018
EX-Now Program
Seoul, Korea
July 12, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Chicago, IL
June 6-10, 2018
Riverwest FemFest Film and Video Showcase 2018
Hosted by RW FemFest and Microlights
The Open
Milwaukee, WI
May 29, 2018 - Two programs beginning at 7PM
When It Rains, It Pours - solo exhibition
The Green Gallery
Milwaukee, WI
April 18-May 12, 2018
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
Minneapolis, MN
April 12-28, 2018
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Athens, OH
April 9-15, 2018
When It Rains, It Pours - solo exhibition
Silver Eye Center for Photography
Pittsburgh, PA
March 2018
Onion City Film And Video Festival
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2018
Cosmic Rays Festival
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Varsity Theater
March 1, 2018
Labocine
February Issue "Machine Minds & Digital Neurons"
The Uncanny
Organized by Short Circuit: Experimental Shorts
The Nightingale Room, Grand Central
29-30, Surrey Street
Brighton, United Kingdom
Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
Cave Festival - Solo Program
Presented by Cellular Cinema
Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 - 9:00pm
CC30 - Sonic Cinema
Presented by Cellular Cinema
Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Dec. 3, 2017 - 7:00pm
Flicker & Wow: Delphi Falls - shorts program
The Public Cinema, Knoxville, TN
Presented by Big Ears, curated by Darren Hughes
Dec. 6, 2017 - The Pilot Light, 7:00pm
Union Cinema - Peck School of the Arts - UW-Milwaukee - Solo Program
Wherever You Go, There We Are: Videos by Jesse McLean
Nov. 14, 2017 - 7:00pm, Q&A to follow screening
MUBI - review of Projections NYFF
Almudena Escobar López
Oct. 30, 2017
Imagine Science Film Festival
Cobble Hill Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
See a Dog, Hear a Dog, Transhuman Diaries program
Oct. 18, 2017
Festival international du film de la Roche-sur-Yon, Novelles Vagues Competition, France
See a Dog, Hear a Dog
Oct. 16-22, 2017
New York Film Festival, Projections, New York, NY
Program 1: Speculative Spaces
Wherever You Go, There We Are
Oct. 6-9, 2017
Artist Now! - Guest Lecture Series
Peck School of the Arts - UW-Milwaukee
Oct. 4, 2017
Vdrome
See a Dog, Hear a Dog, Introduced by Arnaud Gerspacher
Sept. 1-14, 2017
Open City Documentary Festival - London, UK
By Hyper Media, For Hyper Media - curated by LOST FUTURES
Wherever You Go, There We Are
September 9, 2017
25 FPS - Zagreb, Croatia
See a Dog, Hear a Dog
Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2017
VDB TV: Decades
Sandwiched Between Apocalypse and Drama - curated by Aily Nash
The Burning Blue
July-October 2, 2017
Meidän Festivaali - Järvenpää, Finland
See a Dog, Hear a Dog
July 2017
Santarcangelo Festival - Milan, Italy
MIND BODY DIALOGUE - curated by Nocturnal Reflections
Lose Yourself + See a Dog, Hear a Dog
July 2017
Video Video Zine!
Guest curation - June 2017
Jury Award - Chicago Underground Film Festival
See a Dog, Hear a Dog
June 2017
Edward Cella Art + Architecture - Los Angeles, CA
Twenty/20 Film Series
Wherever You Go, There You Are
July 2017
Haggerty Museum of Art - Milwaukee, WI
Mary L. Nohl Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition
June 8 - September 17, 2017