JESSE RODKIN
Balsa Wood Lighthouse
Narration by my iPhone's "predictive text" function, examining the Vilém Flusserian Universe of Imagery - and data - which we glue our eyes to. Depicting the moment of touch between our flesh and our rectangles.
Screenings:
​- New York Lift-Off Film Festival, June 2024
- Arthouse Film Festival (formerly Austin Arthouse) 12 state screening
program; Semi-Finalist honors for "Best Experimental Film
Cinematography."
- Madness Film Festival, Brooklyn, April 2023.
Documentary commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra centered on legendary American composer and conductor Lukas Foss and his contributions to experimental composing while further developing the Western New York classical music scene.
Lukas Foss: Buffalo's Triple Artist
Screenings:
​- Premiered at Carnegie Hall, NYC, headlining the Lukas Foss Centennial
Celebration, October 2022.
- Kleinhan's Music Hall, Buffalo, November 2022.
- Slee Hall's Lippes Concert Hall, November 2022.
Sore Eyes
Screenings:
​- Buffalo Center for the Arts, Jesse's Blowup Couch Emporium, May,
2023.
- Defended successfully before thesis committee in completion of
Masters of the Fine Arts.
Pressure
Screenings:
​- Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Warsaw Ghetto, October 2018
- Buffalo International Film Festival, August 2018
- Miami Independent Film Festival, November 2018
- Dumbo Film Festival, June 2019
- New York Cinematography Awards, June 2020, receiving Finalist honors
for "Best Short Film Cinematography."
Hey, JERRi?
Created in 24 hours, awarded the "Ruler SUPREME" of the Buffalo 48Hour Film Project, 2023.
Add Them to the Pile
Screenings:
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- Madness Film Festival, Brooklyn, 2022
- Florence International Film Awards,
Italy, 2022
- New York Movie Awards, Manhattan 2022,
receiving "special recognition" in
cinematography.
More FILMOGRAPHY:
I'm Somewhere in There (12:09, 2023)
Beep Boop Bring Bring Awooga (8:30, 2023)
Something Else (6:50, 2022)
Shooter (4:50, 2022)
Continuity Loss (11:23, 2022)
Migraine (3:19, 2022)
Seen From Above, Scene From the Ground (9:40, 2021)
The Space In-Between (4:55, 2021)
M O O N J U I C E (5:06, 2021)
January 6th (7:25, 2021)
Lake Hotel Casino (13:04, 2020)
Snail Reads Hemmingway (93:56, 2020)
Rosinkalech (11:04, 2020)
​Blood Cells (1:52, 2019)
3:43 - 3:55 (14:00, 2018)
All We Have (14:59, 2018)
11 Hours a Day (13:14, 2017)
High Strung (5:53, 2016)
Insomniac (4:33, 2015)
It was really nice of you to scroll all this way down so here's something I made in 2019 in my bedroom using a macro lens, two colored lights, and a bottle of Dawn dish soap: