Jeremy Moss is a filmmaker, curator, and educator. His experimental, narrative, and performance-based films embrace melodramatic and surrealist gestures as a way to deal with, and react to, the cultural boundaries and structures that shape our bodies, places, and perceptions.
Moss was trained in independent narrative and documentary filmmaking and his recent films take shape in structural, lyrical, and abstract forms. Much of his work reacts to his upbringing in Utah, a dramatic desert terrain colonized by a culture that mandates normativity. 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 has screened his work at a range of prominent film festivals and venues, which have included: Edinburgh International Film Festival, Antimatter [media arts], Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, UnionDocs, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, CROSSROADS, Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, and TIFF Lightbox. He has presented solo programs at a range of institutions including Northwest Film Forum, 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.