Jesse Drew
Jesse Drew | |
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Born | New York, NY |
Nationality | University of Texas
media art, documentary |
Awards | Best Documentary at University of Cincinnati Film Festival, Festival Award at Hallwalls Festival |
Jesse Drew is an American artist, author, media activist, and educator.
Biography
Jesse Drew was born at
In 1982, he moved to Paris, France with his wife and child and became involved in media production. Upon returning to the United States in 1984, he joined the nascent video collective Paper Tiger TV, and started a West Coast branch. At the same time, he began working as an electronics technician at several start-ups and then Dolby Laboratories. He worked with the 'zine collective
He is a professor in the Cinema and Technocultural Studies (CaTS) program at the
Media work
Drew has worked extensively on community media projects including the San Francisco Community Television and Paper Tiger Television. He has also been an advocate for Low-power broadcasting and helped found KDRT-LP radio, a low power FM station in Davis, California.[2][3] His work has shown at the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the Mill Valley Film Festival, Artists' Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, American Film Institute, and others.
Manifestoon is one of Drew's best known works. The film is a collage of classic cartoons edited to illustrate the narration:
Newe Segobia is Not for Sale was produced by Drew in 1993, documenting the land struggle between Western Shoshone sisters Mary Dann and Carrie Dann and the BLM.
Writing
In 2013, Jesse Drew wrote the book "A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media." His work has been published in Resisting the Virtual Life (City Lights Press) and Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (City Lights Press) as well as Processed World, and Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 (University of Minnesota Press).
References
- ^ "San Francisco Labor in the 1970s" in Carlsson, Chris, ed., Ten Years That Shook the City, City Lights Books, 2011
- ^ Video Data Bank Archived 2008-04-05 at the Wayback Machine page on Jesse Drew
- ^ Jesse Drew's bio
- ^ Manifestoon at Internet Archive
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Communist manifestoon. YouTube.
- ^ "The Best Films of the '90s | Nicole Brenez". 30 June 2014.
External links
- JesseDrew.com official website
- Jesse Drew in the Video Data Bank
- BoingBoingNovember 14, 2006 (on Manifestoon)
- Andrew Fies (June 14, 2007). "Can Movies Make a Difference?". ABC News. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
Are the gadfly director's ambitions for his movie unrealistic? Jesse Drew, who teaches documentary film at the University of California Davis, argues that documentaries can alter policy and culture. He thinks "Sicko" will amplify the pressure on policymakers to reform health care. "It will open to a mass audience," he said, "and it's not going to be lost on politicians. They know that many of their constituents will see these issues raised and there's going to be a link made that they have to deal with some of these issues."
- Chris Rue (May 22, 2008). "Technology in Culture". California Aggie. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
Here at UC Davis, the intersection is explored in Technocultural Studies, an undergraduate program with an assortment of interdisciplinary courses and innovative media equipment available for students. Jesse Drew, director and co-creator of the Technocultural Studies (TCS) major, said he sees the interaction between technology and culture daily.
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