Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker, professor, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Sydney Biennale, the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other festivals and museums internationally. His films Natives (1991, with Scott Sterling), Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995, with Rubén Ortiz-Torres), Ruins (1999), and The American Egypt (2001) have won numerous awards at film festivals in the United States, Latin America, and Japan. He has received grants and fellowships including the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship (N.E.A.), the California Arts Council Fellowship, the Brody Family Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fideicomiso para la Cultura México-EE.UU. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, his critical essays on photography, film, and video have appeared in Afterimage, History of Photography, Visual Anthropology Review, La Pusmoderna, Wide Angle, and other media arts journals. He has taught at the University of California San Diego, Bennington College, California Institute of the Arts, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and holds the MacArthur Chair of Media Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 1999 he was a Fulbright fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mérida.
Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker, professor, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Sydney Biennale, the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other festivals and museums internationally. His films Natives (1991, with Scott Sterling), Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995, with Rubén Ortiz-Torres), Ruins (1999), and The American Egypt (2001) have won numerous awards at film festivals in the United States, Latin America, and Japan. He has received grants and fellowships including the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship (N.E.A.), the California Arts Council Fellowship, the Brody Family Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fideicomiso para la Cultura México-EE.UU. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, his critical essays on photography, film, and video have appeared in Afterimage, History of Photography, Visual Anthropology Review, La Pusmoderna, Wide Angle, and other media arts journals. He has taught at the University of California San Diego, Bennington College, California Institute of the Arts, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and holds the MacArthur Chair of Media Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 1999 he was a Fulbright fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mérida.
