Jesse McLean
Directing
Jesse McLean is a media artist and educator whose research is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, especially as presented and observed through mediated images. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, McLean's work asks the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant. She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Venice Film Festival, Italy; Transmediale, Berlin; 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Interstate Projects and PPOW Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Gallery 400, Chicago; Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. McLean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at University of Iowa.
Known for
Wherever You Go, There We Are
October 6, 2017
Lose Yourself
January 1, 2011
Just Like Us
November 10, 2013
Light Needs
March 15, 2023
I'm in Pittsburgh and it's Raining
January 1, 2015
Somewhere Only We Know
January 1, 2009
Remote
January 1, 2011
The Eternal Quarter Inch
January 1, 2008
Curious Fantasies
January 23, 2020
Climbing
January 1, 2009
The Burning Blue
January 1, 2009
Placeholder
March 20, 2026
Behind the camera19
- 2026Placeholder Director
- 2023Light Needs Director, Producer
- 2020Curious Fantasies Director
- 2017Wherever You Go, There We Are Director
- 2016See a Dog, Hear a Dog Director
- 2015I'm in Pittsburgh and it's Raining Director
- 2013Just Like Us Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
- 2012The Invisible World Director
- 2011Trust Falls Director
- 2011Remote