Jessie Currie

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Lens-based artist and writer, currently focusing on videopoetry and experimental film.

Biography

I am an award-winning Bristol based, Deaf, Neurodivergent, multidisciplinary artist and writer working mainly within digital storytelling.

I have been awarded The Best Women’s Filmmaker prize at The Swedish International Film Festival 2023 and The Miles Ketley Memorial Fund prize 2023 by The Independent Cinema Organisation. My work explores “moments of being” and the gaps between the spaces, incorporating play with shadow, light, movement, time and space.

My background is in Photography, community audio visual projects, and Artist Filmmaking has led to work with Artists Anna Lucas, Andrew Mania, Nathan Hughes and Stewart Croft. I have supported them with ideas generation, editing, sound recording, assistant direction, with my editing work for Andrew Mania being exhibited at The Guggenheim, New York. Beyond this, my work has been screened at: The Barbican, The ICA, Berlin International Arts, Boden International, Edinburgh International, Encounters, JÁ International Poetry, San Diego International Arts, Sheffield Doc, Short and to the Point Toronto, International Poetry Copenhagen, and International Women’s Film Festivals.

Since graduating in 2003 from UWE with a degree in Time Based Media, I have worked as a creative technician and workshop facilitator with Picture This Moving Image, Calling The Shots, and Knowle West Media Centre. With funding from Skillset I have created ‘My Story’ a filmmaking project enabling disenfranchised young people to express themselves though digital means.

My passion is to explore the hinterland between film, poetry, performance, music, spoken word, and photography. I want to democratise the consumption of culture, making these practices more accessible to new and diverse audiences.

Art Practice

I am a lens-based artist and writer, currently focusing on videopoetry and experimental film. My work has been selected for many different festivals, exhibitions and screenings around the world over the last decade, including: The Barbican, The ICA, Berlin International Arts, Boden International, Edinburgh International, Encounters, JÁ International Poetry, San Diego International Arts, Sheffield Doc, Short and to the Point Toronto, International Poetry Copenhagen, and International Women’s Film Festivals.

My work has been described as ‘…natural filmmaking, with an innate knack for telling a compelling story by weaving together the elements of film, text and sound. It is clear from her work that she has great empathy and the ability to draw out of people aspects of themselves that they wouldn’t ordinarily show to the world. Her films are immersive in the sense that they take the viewer somewhere else, enabling us to experience her subjects’ experience through the juxtaposition of visuals, text and sound – a juxtaposition that is typically lateral rather than literal. She brings poetry and art to the narrative medium of film and, in doing so, makes films that are rich worlds of atmosphere and sensory connection.” Janet Lees 2023

My work explores “moments of being” and the gaps between the spaces, incorporating play with shadow, light, movement, time and space. My passion is to explore the hinterland between film, poetry, performance, music, spoken word, and photography. My desire is to democratise the consumption of culture by breaking Artists Filmmaking out of the constraints of galleries & cinemas and projecting them in the public realm.
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