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Jessie Growden

Jessie Growden
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Jessie Growden started making films in 2014, and is a founding member of the Moving Image Makers Collective. Her videos explore place, landscape and personal experiences through a playful approach to recording images. Her work focusses on the detail, the sentimental and the throwaway, and the history and lives of objects and places.
You can see a complete and up to date version of this information on my website: jgrowden.com

2021:
I am Tall Meepa | Moving Image Makers Collective – Conversations with a Forest, 17/9/21 – 18/9/21
I’ve Only Been Here Half My Life | Alchemy Film & Arts – The Teviot, The Flag & The Rich Rich Soil (date TBC late 2021)

2020:
Photograph | Alchemy Live 2020
Lines in the Sand | The Stove Network, Dumfries

2019:
Lines in the Sand | Experiments in Cinema 14.2, Albuquerque, USA
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection | Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
Lines in the Sand | A Cyborg’s Search for Meaning, Safehouse, London
Lines in the Sand | NAUTILUS: BEEF Shed at Supernormal Festival 2019, Oxfordshire
Sixty Three Plastic Bottles and One Aluminium Can | Cinemaforum, Warsaw
Lines in the Sand | Pix Film Gallery, Toronto
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection | Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam
Lines in the Sand | CCA, Glasgow

2018:
Circle #3 | Winnipeg Undergruond Film Festival
Sixty Three Plastic Bottles and One Aluminium Can | Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival
Rising and Falling | Peebles Outdoor Film Festival

2017:
Another Forest | Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk Arts Festival
Rising and Falling | River Ways Festival, Hawick
Swings and Roundabouts | Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival

2016:
TFOD | Creative Coathanger Festival

2015:
Back and Forth | Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival
Forest 2 | Beyond the Shutter – Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk Arts Festival
Back and Forth | Moving Image Makers Collective Screening, Hawick
Forest | Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival

Education:
BA(Hons) Design for Textiles (Fashion, Interior, Art), Heriot Watt University, 2014
Summer (still) part of I've Only Been Here Half My Life
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  • Summer (still) part of I've Only Been Here Half My Life
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Labels (still) part of I've Only Been Here Half My Life
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  • Labels (still) part of I've Only Been Here Half My Life
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Winter (still) part of I've Only Been Here Half My Life
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  • Winter (still) part of I've Only Been Here Half My Life
I Canoe Canoe Canoe (still)
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Photograph (still)
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Training Montage (still)
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Tastes Like Falling Apart
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Just a Line
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