Jesse Lerner

Based on Roberto Turnbull's work

The video “Movil remix” takes as a starting point in Roberto Turnbull’s large painting “Móvil Tzompantli”. The biomorphic elements cut out from the painting, really become mobile in a short playful animation. Alexander Calder goes to Chicén Itzá seeking a Mayan modernism. Len Lye visits Tenochtitlan’s Templo Mayor and puts the skulls in motion.

Biography

Jesse Lerner is a Director, Professor, Curator, and Writer. His interests in the relationships between Mexico and the United States are shown in his documentaries, such as Nativos (1991, with Scott Sterling), Fronterilandia (1995, with Rubén Ortiz Torres), Ruinas (1999), El Egipto americano (2001), T.S.H. (2004) y Magnavoz (2006).

As a curator he has programmed exhibitions for the Robert Flaherty seminar, the Photographic Centre Manuel Álvarez Bravo and the Guggenheim New York and Bilbao. Among his books "F is for Phony" (with Alex Juhasz) and  "El impacto de la modernidad" stand out. He has taught at universities and institutions in Mexico and USA, such as Centro de la Imagen, Colegios de Claremont and the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.