Jesse

A con­ver­sa­tion about resent­ment, based on a dream I had in 2014.

Director’s statement

Recent­ly, my dreams have begun to lack sym­bol­ism. A dream of aban­don­ment is about aban­don­ment, only the ideas are a lit­tle slippery.

Jesse is drawn from footage I shot and hand-processed with my stu­dents at West­ern Iowa Tech Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege. The film ques­tions the nature of betray­al: while Jesse feels wronged, he also ques­tions whether resent­ment actu­al­ly exists, and won­ders if his desire to recon­nect with his father is a form of objectification.