TEACHING

2015 - Present
Workshop Instructor, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY
Direct Filmmaking Animation
Cyanotype 16mm Filmmaking

2016 - 2018
Teaching Artist, The Little Animation Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Stop-Motion Animation, K-9th grade

EDUCATION

2012
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Studio for Interrelated Media

Publications

“Hawthorn Self-Portraits,” Queer Poets Write About Nature, Cutlines Press, 2018

“Lilith’s Mirror,” Arcane Perfection: An Anthology by Queer, Trans, and Intersex Witches, Cutlines Press, 2017

Bio

Jess Lynch is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Much of their film work evolves out of direct experimentation with found materials and is non-narrative, visceral, painted, cut-up, deconstructed, and often silent. She is interested in the moving image as a dreamlike medium most directly capable of touching the unconscious mind and affecting states of consciousness. Many finished works become raw material for live video mixing in collaboration with musicians and other artists.

Jess holds a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has exhibited their work at numerous film festivals, galleries, and DIY venues.

SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS

2022
Love Letters to Our Moon, Greenpoint Public Library. Brooklyn, NY

Superfine Art Fair with ChaShaMa, The Market Line. New York, NY

2020

Irish Arts Center’s Collective Pop-Up Book Project virtual event

2019
Bailout Theater screening of Hortus Mortem, Judson Memorial Church. New York, NY

2018
MONO SELECTS: 2018, NewFilmmakers Special Program, Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY

Montevideo Cine Experimental, film festival. Montevideo, Uruguay

The Screening Room Film Festival, Hygienic XXXIX Winter Arts Festival. New London, CT

2017
Summer Projections: Cuban and Foreign Shorts, presented by ARTHAUS LAB and MONO NO AWARE. Havana, Cuba

DOBRA Internacional de Cinema Experimental Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Figment Festival, organized participatory workshop with The Little Animation Studio to make a collective film, A Brief History of Governor's Island. Governor's Island, NY

2016

MONO X: MONO MADE, 2009-2016, screening with Filmmaker Q&A, BRIC Media Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Bushwick Arts Festival, gallery event at Catland Books. Brooklyn, NY

2012
Billboard Art Project, stills from Miasma. Salem, Oregon

2011
Three Minute Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM