DREAM OF JESSE
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I’m a Latine filmmaker, screenwriter, and multi-media artist from Los Angeles, California (Glassell Park); a first-generation graduate from Northwestern University; and a first-year graduate student at California Institute of the Arts. Learned in programs like RunwayAI, Unreal Engine 5, Unity, After Effects, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, DaVinci Resolve, and Blender; I am a futurist. I imagine a media boundless by ideals yet embedded in a human-made reality, created by people like me. My storytelling and production skills span from music videos and short narrative films to experimental documentaries which have been selected in festivals from the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) to the Defy Film Festival.
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01 Transformó
“A farm tenant recieves an unexpected visitor that recalls the past while inspiring a future.” This particular short film covers the territory of change without revealing the product of any true transformation for the protagonist, emphasizing the opportunity and chance rather than any pressure to commit or initiate.
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“A farm tenant recieves an unexpected visitor that recalls the past while inspiring a future.” This particular short film covers the territory of change without revealing the product of any true transformation for the protagonist, emphasizing the opportunity and chance rather than any pressure to commit or initiate.
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05/2024
02 3D Modeling
Features a reel of After Effects/Blender/Unreal Engine animations developed over the past year, also incorporating drawings.
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Features a reel of After Effects/Blender/Unreal Engine animations developed over the past year, also incorporating drawings.
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12/2024
03 The Sun Sometimes Sleeps
Still. Quiet. And hopefully in peace. An ideal night for me. But night was a lot of things, like Death. We can have many dreams and hopes for it, that it turns out well, or that it treats us good. Do we treat sacred our sleep, let alone the sleep of others? And sometimes we may get too caught up in our day-to-day we forget or can’t. That’s why I made this documentary: because the sun sometimes sleeps.
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Still. Quiet. And hopefully in peace. An ideal night for me. But night was a lot of things, like Death. We can have many dreams and hopes for it, that it turns out well, or that it treats us good. Do we treat sacred our sleep, let alone the sleep of others? And sometimes we may get too caught up in our day-to-day we forget or can’t. That’s why I made this documentary: because the sun sometimes sleeps.
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11/2023
04 A New Web
Spiders do not give birth, in a human sense. They lay eggs in sacs made of the same loving silk as the webs that make their home. The baby spiders attach themselves to the abdomen of the mother, and after about two weeks they are on their own. Out of the house so to speak, on their way to make a new place to live, to find flies, and thread their own history. I am a spider, and I am on my own.
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Spiders do not give birth, in a human sense. They lay eggs in sacs made of the same loving silk as the webs that make their home. The baby spiders attach themselves to the abdomen of the mother, and after about two weeks they are on their own. Out of the house so to speak, on their way to make a new place to live, to find flies, and thread their own history. I am a spider, and I am on my own.
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05/2024
05 Sol
A visualized love poem shot on Bolex 16mm, the subject of the work is a comparison of the soul to the sun, a bright star that must eventually die.
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A visualized love poem shot on Bolex 16mm, the subject of the work is a comparison of the soul to the sun, a bright star that must eventually die.
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05/2023
06 Nana, the Sun
This short film is a multi-media exploration of self-concept, remembrance, and sacrifice through the synthesis of Aztec folklore and my personal reflections regarding my positionality and experiences.
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This short film is a multi-media exploration of self-concept, remembrance, and sacrifice through the synthesis of Aztec folklore and my personal reflections regarding my positionality and experiences.
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04/2023
07 Venus
A music video featuring my music, editing, and direction. The song and video are about toxic relationships and Stockholm syndrome, which is distinctly demonstrated through the visual synthesis of two pre-existing media: Possession (1981) and “Venus as a Boy” by Bjork.
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A music video featuring my music, editing, and direction. The song and video are about toxic relationships and Stockholm syndrome, which is distinctly demonstrated through the visual synthesis of two pre-existing media: Possession (1981) and “Venus as a Boy” by Bjork.
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08/2023
