Jessie Sara English
Filmmaker/Photographer, Brooklyn New York
Official Bio:
JESSIE SARA ENGLISH is an Australian photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. She studied Photomedia at Sydney College of Arts, graduating with honors in 2006. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Oyster Magazine, T World Journal, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Her collaborators include filmmaker Miriam Bennett, Brooklyn-based artist Johanna and the Dusty Floor, Parsons the New School for Design among others. Her work has been shown all over the world with exhibits in Australia, Malmo, Sweden, Berlin, NYC, and London.
Kate on Jessie
Due to unforseen circumstances I was late to move in to my Brooklyn apartment last summer and when I finally arrived, Jessie Sara English was living there too. I had no idea what I was in for and to this day I can’t figure out how I got so lucky, but it feels like fate and good fortune for sure. Jessie is a gem, a real artist, a truly alive human being. Her lust for life is expressed throughout her work in confrontational and brutally honest form.
The first time I worked with Jessie, we were collaborating remotely with Miriam Bennett on the music video Where Are You (I Am Already Gone). Jessie was DP and it was her first ‘moving picture.’ As usual we were under the gun regarding time and money, meaning there really was none of either, but Jessie is relentless when it comes to making art happen. She got me out of bed one morning, sat me on the couch with my guitar and started filming. I think that video is my favorite of all the videos I’ve done, because it’s raw and honest and captures a real moment in my life that would never have existed without Jessie’s presence. Our dear mutual friend, singer-songwriter Johanna Cranitch, refers to Jessie as a whirlwind. Jessie would come home trailing cables and cameras, stray kittens and fashion models, like a real whirling dervish and we all know she loves to dance.
Check out one of her latest exhibits at a gallery in London iamnotacelebrity.com
Videos we’ve done together are at youtube.com/katetuckersongs
