Jesse McLean
Trust Falls
2011
Single-channel HD video
10 minutes, looped
Trust Falls
2011
Single-channel HD video
10 minutes, looped
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jesse McLean (b. 1975) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the winner of the Overkill Award at the 2011 Images Festival and the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has presented her work at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Venice Film Festival, Transmediale, 25 FPS Festival, Images Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Impakt, CPH:DOX, Kassel Doc FF, NEXT, Arthouse, Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Gallery 400, Three Walls, Interstate Projects and PPOW Gallery.
Jesse McLean (b. 1975) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the winner of the Overkill Award at the 2011 Images Festival and the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has presented her work at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Venice Film Festival, Transmediale, 25 FPS Festival, Images Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Impakt, CPH:DOX, Kassel Doc FF, NEXT, Arthouse, Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Gallery 400, Three Walls, Interstate Projects and PPOW Gallery.
Zachary Cahill of ArtForum wrote that Trust Falls is a silent and graceful film that records moments of suspended disbelief by way of facial expressions of those taking part in the time-tested trust-building exercise in which participants fall backward to be caught by their peers. Through the close-up shot, McLean captures in vivid detail that unnamable sensation we experience when we completely and willingly surrendering control.
