Jesse Lerner is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. His
documentaries include Frontierland (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), about
the blurred Latino experience in the United States; Ruins (about the
history of Mexican archeology and the traffic in fakes), The Atomic
Sublime (about Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War), The Absent
Stone (with Sandra Rozental, about the monolith of Coatlinchan) and
The American Egypt (about the Mexican Revolution in Yucatán). He
directed the short films Magnavoz, T.S.H., and Natives (with Scott
Sterling). His films were on display at the 2000 Sundance Film
Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (2004, 2000, 1996, 1992), the
Rotterdam International Film Festival (2011), the Guggenheim Museum in
New York (2005, 1999), and the Aztlán Today exhibit at the Bronx
Museum of the Arts. These films were featured at mid-career surveys at
the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Cineteca Nacional
(Mexico City), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), and the
Churubusco Studios (Mexico City). His books include F is for Phony
(with Alexandra Juhasz), a survey of faked documentaries, The Shock of
Modernity, The Maya of Modernism, Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in
Latin America (with Luciano Piazza), The Catherwood Project, How to
Read el Pato Pascual (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), L.A. Collects L.A.,
Lean-Drok-Atz (with Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman), and The
Mexperimental Cinema (with Rita Gonzalez). Two of these publications
were associated with film series: Ism Ism Ism (which showed at the Los
Angeles Filmforum, the Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, and the
Museo Nacional de Arte Reina SofÃa) and The Mexperimental Cinema
(screened at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, Mexico City's Centro
Nacional de las Artes, and the Harvard Film Archive). He has also
curated other film, photography, and fine arts exhibitions at the
National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (Palacio de Bellas Artes),
the Schindler House/MAK Center, the Guggenheim Museums (in New York
and Bilbao), and the Robert Flaherty Seminar. He has lectured
extensively on film and other visual arts at institutions including
CalArts, Princeton University, the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán,
the Freie Universitat Berlin, the Museo Amparo, University College
London, the Getty Museum, the Hammer Museum, Cornell University, the
Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa (Mexico City), the Berlin Documentary
Forum, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
documentaries include Frontierland (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), about
the blurred Latino experience in the United States; Ruins (about the
history of Mexican archeology and the traffic in fakes), The Atomic
Sublime (about Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War), The Absent
Stone (with Sandra Rozental, about the monolith of Coatlinchan) and
The American Egypt (about the Mexican Revolution in Yucatán). He
directed the short films Magnavoz, T.S.H., and Natives (with Scott
Sterling). His films were on display at the 2000 Sundance Film
Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (2004, 2000, 1996, 1992), the
Rotterdam International Film Festival (2011), the Guggenheim Museum in
New York (2005, 1999), and the Aztlán Today exhibit at the Bronx
Museum of the Arts. These films were featured at mid-career surveys at
the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Cineteca Nacional
(Mexico City), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), and the
Churubusco Studios (Mexico City). His books include F is for Phony
(with Alexandra Juhasz), a survey of faked documentaries, The Shock of
Modernity, The Maya of Modernism, Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in
Latin America (with Luciano Piazza), The Catherwood Project, How to
Read el Pato Pascual (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), L.A. Collects L.A.,
Lean-Drok-Atz (with Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman), and The
Mexperimental Cinema (with Rita Gonzalez). Two of these publications
were associated with film series: Ism Ism Ism (which showed at the Los
Angeles Filmforum, the Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, and the
Museo Nacional de Arte Reina SofÃa) and The Mexperimental Cinema
(screened at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, Mexico City's Centro
Nacional de las Artes, and the Harvard Film Archive). He has also
curated other film, photography, and fine arts exhibitions at the
National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (Palacio de Bellas Artes),
the Schindler House/MAK Center, the Guggenheim Museums (in New York
and Bilbao), and the Robert Flaherty Seminar. He has lectured
extensively on film and other visual arts at institutions including
CalArts, Princeton University, the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán,
the Freie Universitat Berlin, the Museo Amparo, University College
London, the Getty Museum, the Hammer Museum, Cornell University, the
Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa (Mexico City), the Berlin Documentary
Forum, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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