Jeremy Moss is a filmmaker whose work reacts to the cultural boundaries and structures that shape our bodies, places, and perceptions. Embracing meditative, melodramatic, and self-reflexive gestures, his experimental, narrative, and performance-based films explore constructs, norms, and rituals.
Moss was trained in independent narrative and documentary filmmaking and his recent films take shape in surreal, structural, lyrical, and abstract forms. Much of his work reacts to his upbringing in Utah, a dramatic desert terrain colonized by a conservative culture that mandates normativity, and he approaches his films agnostically knowing that there is no one true standard, genre, mode, or moving image technology. With a constant attention to movement – wavering bodies, ever-shifting landscapes, electric frames – his films insist on fluidity, betweenness, transgression, and a sensory resistance to fixedness and standing still.
Moss steadily screens his work at a range of festivals and venues, which have included: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Antimatter [media arts], Athens International Film + Video Festival, San Diego Underground, Chicago Underground, Experiments in Cinema, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, UnionDocs, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, CROSSROADS, Maryland Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, and TIFF Lightbox. He has presented solo programs at institutions such as Northwest Film Forum, Experimental Response Cinema, Basement Films, Echo Park Film Center, Vox Populi, and San Francisco Cinematheque. He co-founded the Gleaners Film Festival in 2022, a community-facing showcase of non-normative films, and he programs for the Moviate Underground Film Festival. Moss is an Associate Professor of Film and Director of the Film and Media Arts Program at Franklin & Marshall College. His films are distributed by Light Cone.