Jesse Richards
www.myspace.com/jesserichardsJesse Richards
- Granby, Massachusetts, US
- Last Login: 12/9/2009
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Interests
General
Holga and pinhole photography, Super-8mm filmmaking, painting, Taoism, Buddhism, haiku, wabi-sabi, mono no aware, World War One, the Spanish Civil War, photography of the Spanish Civil War- esp. Robert Capa's, the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, pirates, late 19th century and early 20th century outlaws and bank robbers, old radio shows like "The Shadow", Ernest Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition on the ship "Endurance", vampire movies made between the 1920's and 1970's, German expressionism (especially the die Brucke group), Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Kirchner, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism,remodernist film, film noir, French new wave, no-wave cinema (like Amos Poe), hardboiled fiction, Link Wray, Medway music scene, Billy Childish, Thee Headcoats, Buff Medways, Thee Mighty Caesars, Tom Waits, Hasil Adkins, Blind Willie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis, Skip James, early raw gospel from the 1920's and 1930's and blues from the same time, older rhythm and blues, jazz, ballsier older rock'n'roll and rockabilly; old soul music; acting, directing plays, I co-founded this renegade group/movement of filmmakers, the Remodernists.Music
Billy Childish and The Musicians of the British Empire, Thee Headcoats,Thee Headcoatees, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Milkshakes, Pop Rivets, Buff Medways, The Delmonas, Wolf Howard, Bruce Brand, Sexton Ming, Masonics, Armitage Shanks, just about anything out of the Medway scene- UK, Link Wray and his Raymen, Papa Lightfoot, Blind Willie Johnson, The Sonics, Lead Belly, Tom Waits, Howlin' Wolf, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Hasil Adkins, Son House, the Earls of Suave, Lee Hazlewood, Black Time, the Gories, Stereo Total, Public Enemy, Groovski, the Trashwomen, the Ronettes, Skip James, Rufus Thomas, Little Junior Parker, Robert Nighthawk, Wu-Tang, RZA, Cast King, Little Jimmy Scott, Immortal Technique, no-wave stuff, Red Transistor, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, James Chance and the Contortions, Del-Byzanteens, old sloppy raw music with heart, old blues, old rhythm and blues, old rockabilly, some punk and early hardcore, Gustav Mahler, Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Frederic ChopinMovies
ALUCARDA- Juan Lopez Moctezuma
ANDREI RUBLEV- Andrei Tarkovsky
ARIEL- Aki Kaurismaki
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK- John Sturges
BAND OF OUTSIDERS- Jean-Luc Godard
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS- Russ Meyer
THE BLACK CAT- Edgar G. Ulmer
BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING- Jean Renoir
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN- James Whale
BRIDES OF DRACULA- Terence Fisher
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA- Sam Peckinpah
COCKFIGHTER- Monte Hellman
THE CRAZIES- George Romero
CRIMINALLY INSANE- Nick Phillips
CRUCIBLE OF HORROR- Viktors Ritelis
CURSE OF THE DEMON- Jacques Tourneur
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS- Harry Kumel
DRACULA- Tod Browning
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER- Lambert Hillyer
THE DRILLER KILLER- Abel Ferrara
EARLY SUMMER- Yasujiro Ozu
EYES WITHOUT A FACE- Georges Franju
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER- Jean Epstein
FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL!- Russ Meyer
FRANKENSTEIN- James Whale
FEMALE VAMPIRE- Jesus Franco
THE FOREIGNER- Amos Poe
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933- Busby Berkeley/Mervyn Le Roy
THE GRAPES OF DEATH- Jean Rollin
THE GREAT SILENCE- Sergio Corbucci
HAIL MARY- Jean-Luc Godard
HANGOVER SQUARE- John Brahm
HORROR OF DRACULA- Terence Fisher
JOHNNY GUITAR- Nicholas Ray
JOHNNY NOBODY- Harris Smith
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG- Mervyn LeRoy
IL GRIDO- Michelangelo Antonioni
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE- Wong Kar-wai
THE INVISIBLE MAN- James Whale
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL- Phil Karlson
L'ATALANTE- Jean Vigo
L'ECLISSE- Michelangelo Antonioni
LATE SPRING- Yasujiro Ozu
LE SAMOURAI- Jean-Pierre Melville
LIPS OF BLOOD- Jean Rollin
LIVING DEAD GIRL- Jean Rollin
THE LUSTY MEN- Nicholas Ray
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE- John Ford
THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST- Aki Kaurismaki
THE MATCH FACTORY GIRl- Aki Kaurismaki
MILLENNIUM MAMBO- Hou Hsaio-hsien
MIRROR- Andrei Tarkovsky
MODERN YOUNG MAN- Harris Smith
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE- Jean Eustache
MOUCHETTE- Robert Bresson
THE MUMMY- Karl Freund
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE- Robert Florey
MY LIFE TO LIVE- Jean-Luc Godard
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS- Fred Dekker
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD- George Romero
A NOS AMOURS- Maurice Pialat
ODD MAN OUT- Carol Reed
THE OLD DARK HOUSE- James Whale
ON DANGEROUS GROUND- Nicholas Ray
PANDORA'S BOX- G.W. Pabst
PARANOID PARK- Gus Van Sant
THE PASSENGER- Michelangelo Antonioni
PATHER PANCHALI- Satyajit Ray
PEPE LE MOKO- Julien Duvivier
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET- Samuel Fuller
PLAYTIME- Jacques Tati
PRIME CUT- Michael Ritchie
THE PUBLIC ENEMY- William A. Wellman
QUEEN CHRISTINA- Rouben Mamoulian
RASHOMON- Akira Kurosawa
REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE- Jean Rollin
REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN- Terence Fisher
RIFIFI- Jules Dassin
SATANTANGO- Bela Tarr
SATAN'S BLACK WEDDING- Nick Phillips
SEVEN SAMURAI- Akira Kurosawa
SHADOWS- John Cassavetes
SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY- Jesus Franco
SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES- Jean Rollin
SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER- Francois Truffaut
THE SHOOTING- Monte Hellman
SISTERS- Brian De Palma
SPIDER BABY- Jack Hill
THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH- Sergio Martino
SUNRISE- F.W. Murnau
TARGETS- Peter Bogdanovich
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE- Fritz Lang
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE- Tobe Hooper
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?- Sydney Pollack
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT- Nicholas Ray
THIEVES LIKE US- Robert Altman
THIEVES' HIGHWAY- Jules Dassin
THE THIN MAN- W.S. Van Dyke
THE THIRD MAN- Carol Reed
THREE BROTHERS- Francesco Rosi
TOKYO STORY- Yasujiro Ozu
TOKYO TWILIGHT- Yasujiro Ozu
TOO LATE FOR TEARS- Byron Haskin
TOUCH OF EVIL- Orson Welles
TRASH- Paul Morrissey
THE TRIAL- Orson Welles
TROUBLE IN PARADISE- Ernst Lubitsch
TWO LANE BLACKTOP- Monte Hellman
UGETSU- Kenji Mizoguchi
THE VAMPIRE BAT- Frank R. Strayer
VAMPYR- Carl Th. Dreyer
VAN GOGH- Maurice Pialat
VENUS IN FURS- Jesus Franco
THE VIOLENT YEARS- William Morgan
A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD- Jesus Franco
WARLOCK- Edward Dmytryk
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE- Robert Aldrich
WHAT TIME IS IT OVER THERE?- Tsai Ming-liang
WHITE ZOMBIE- Victor Halperin
WINCHESTER '73- Anthony Mann
THE WORLD- Jia Zhang-ke
ZERO FOR CONDUCT- Jean Vigo
Television
Twin Peaks, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Freaks and Geeks (lame title- great show). Why do all the tv shows I like (and there aren't many) get cancelled too quickly? Also now "Big Love"- Harry Dean Stanton is the man!Books
Knut Hamsun, David Goodis, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Basho, Billy Childish, Jim Thompson, George Orwell, Herman Melville, Raymond Radiguet, Bukowski, Horace McCoy, Charles Willeford, Sherwood Anderson, Nathanael West, Dostoevsky, Ueda Akinari, Kafka, most early hardboiled fiction...
Heroes
Raskolnikov, Arturo Bandini, Bartleby the Scrivener, Johan Nilsen Nagel
Schools
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University Of Massachusetts-Amherst
- Amherst,MA
- Graduated: N/A
- Degree: In Progress
- Major: Fine Arts
2008 to 2010 -
Cooperative High School
- New Haven,Connecticut
- Graduated: 1994
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: High School Diploma
1994 to 1994 -
School Of Visual Arts
- New York, NEW YORK
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Major: Film Production
1994 to 1996 -
Lyman Hall High School
- Wallingford,Connecticut
- Graduated: 1994
- Student status: Alumni
1990 to 1993
Networking
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Outlaw filmmaker, co-founder of Remodernist Film and Photography. Also I've acted in various short films and am interested in getting back into that more...
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Need people to shoot for upcoming pinhole photo book and other projects. Can offer prints as compensation
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I've been photographed from time to time in collaborations with other punk,experimental, expressionistic, fine arts photographers. If I'm right for you let me know- I'm easy to work with...
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Latest Blog Entries
- Oct 5, 2009 12:35 PM New essays on Remodernist film by me, Peter Rinaldi and Roy Rezaali in MungBeing Magazine
- Jul 18, 2009 12:22 PM A fundraiser for my new film project just launched on Kickstarter!!!
- Dec 28, 2008 4:25 AM Interview with me in the Turkish film magazine BAKINIZ
- Aug 27, 2008 9:49 PM Remodernist Film Manifesto
- Mar 4, 2008 4:36 AM Mine and Nic Watson’s film playing in London
Blurbs
About me:
You can buy prints of my work here (there is much more on the site than what's on this blasted slideshow):
"Fortunately for him (Jesse Richards), based on his appearance here (in SHOOTING AT THE MOON), the fashion police never caught up to him." -FILM THREAT, from the review for my Super-8 punk film SHOOTING AT THE MOON
I sometimes paint pictures, take pinhole photographs and used to make short films (and would like to again someday).
I am left handed.
I like amateurism rather than professionalism. I like Super-8 film rather than DV, oil paint rather than acrylic, pinhole photography rather than digital... I like old broken-down barns, cornfields, old photographs, apple trees, snow, autumn, the ocean and old dusty books about seafaring and adventure and things of that sort...
I plan to focus more of what I do on the ideas of memory and nostalgia (particularly my memories, and my imagined memories of times gone by) and will continue to express them with instruments that evoke that kind of feeling- in other words pinhole photography, Super-8 film, oil paint- instruments that are better for capturing the true essence of life- something that modern technology like digital video, digital photography and computer art seems unable to do.
Here's some links about me to check out:
Brian Sherwin interviews me on MYARTSPACE.com
Who I'd like to meet:
Collaborators (models, photographers, filmmakers artists), anyone who wants to show my paintings/photographs, screen my films or give me some goddamn money so some more work can get done! You know you want to give me money!!Anyone with guts, spirit and authenticity. People who don't know everything or possibly anything at all either and are excited to have a sense of wonder about life and things in general too.
.. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Comments
Jul 17 2009 11:51 AM
Jul 17 2009 11:51 AM
Jun 21 2009 5:51 AM
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..FANS FANS FANS this show is going to be amazing..keep checking this site for tour dates and updates we start on the west coast july 3rd
thanks
jim
May 27 2009 7:52 AM
Jun 3 2009 4:48 AM
Apr 25 2009 10:29 PM
Oh, and that Matthäuspassion recording is great, it really caught me I just can't turn it off
Apr 20 2009 1:29 AM
i have been meaning to check out Satantango for years. now that it is a MUST, i shall.
watching Lang's "Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler" for the Film of the Month Club blog. you should be a member of this so we can get some good stuff up there. www.filmofthemonthclub.blogspot.com
Mar 18 2009 4:58 AM
Feb 20 2009 5:40 PM
Jan 1 2009 11:12 PM
P.S.Did you get painting?
Dec 27 2008 7:28 PM
Dec 23 2008 11:55 PM
merry christmas !!
Peace and Love....
and Merry Christmas
Matt Bray
Dec 3 2008 8:41 AM
old groovski trax from 1999
I just uploaded it on this page
Nov 27 2008 12:22 AM
Nov 22 2008 10:39 PM
Nov 1 2008 4:41 AM
Sep 18 2008 1:04 AM
i saw an amazing film last night -
Peter Goldman's "Echoes of Silence" from 1965. Rarely screened (last night they screened what was, reportedly, the ONLY PRINT)and for the most part unknown or forgotten. This thing is the defination of a remodernist film. was thinking about you and your work all through this thing. It was screened at LIGHT INDUSTRY, a new experimental film house in brooklyn. About 150 people (they ran out of chairs, they started sitting on the floor). all for a 16mm film that none them ever even heard of! MAYBE FILM IS NOT DEAD!!!
Read this review from Gene Youngblood (he's the dude that did the commentary for L'avventura[which is my all time favorite commentary])that we wrote in 1968-
http://www. lightindustry. org/goldman_youngblood. pdf
wish you were there man.
JONAS MEKAS INTRODUCED IT!!!!!
Sep 14 2008 3:24 PM
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Aug 21 2008 12:12 AM
Aug 19 2008 11:48 PM
Aug 9 2008 6:24 PM
we might have to cancel the show
Andrea got sick
Aug 7 2008 8:27 PM
i 'm coming to northampton this sat,
we're playing a show at the basement
adam
Aug 1 2008 4:44 PM
new haven is good. i've been living in wallyworld but i just strted working partime at the new hulls location on whitney, so i'm getting back in the swing of things now that Isling is one yr.
i've been slackin on the painting lately but i just finished a metal sculpture class that kicked ass. i want to get back to oil portraits though.
its good to hear that you are well and still making the art.
:) next time you are around CT let me know, we should get a drink at the Owl!
Jul 31 2008 11:52 PM
Jul 30 2008 10:47 PM
-niko