Jesse Lerner

Who is Jesse Lerner?

Jesse Lerner is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. His documentaries include Frontierland, about the blurred Latino experience in the United States; Ruins, The Atomic Sublime and The American Egypt. He directed the short films Magnavoz and Natives. His films were on display at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Aztlán Today exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. His books include F is for Phony, a survey of faked documentaries, The Shock of Modernity, The Maya of Modernism and The Mexperimental Cinema. He has also curated film and photography exhibitions at the National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Robert Flaherty Seminar.