Jean Sousa

Jean
Sousa

Jean Sousa moved from the east coast to Chicago in the mid-70s to pursue an MFA at School Of the Art Institute in Performance and Filmmaking. Since the late 70s, Sousas work has been shown nationally ...

Films

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    Ellen on the Rope
    Experimental

    Ellen on the Rope
    Jean Sousa

    16mm, color, sound
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    Pattern Impulse
    Experimental

    Pattern Impulse
    Jean Sousa

    16mm , color, sound
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    Swish
    Experimental

    Swish
    Jean Sousa

    16mm, color, silent
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Body
    • Erotic
    • Films About Film
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Dance
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    Spent Moments
    Experimental
    Narrative

    Spent Moments
    Jean Sousa

    16mm, black and white, silent, 10 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Philosophical
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    Today is Sunday
    Experimental
    Narrative

    Today is Sunday
    Jean Sousa

    16mm, black and white, sound
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Environment / Nature
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    "The Losing Battle"
    Experimental
    Narrative

    "The Losing Battle"
    Jean Sousa

    Digital File, color, sound, 5 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Literarature / Theater
    • Dance

Biography

Jean Sousa moved from the east coast to Chicago in the mid-70s to pursue an MFA at School Of the Art Institute in Performance and Filmmaking. Since the late 70s, Sousas work has been shown nationally and internationally at the National Film Theater in London, the ICA in Boston, and more recently Microscope Gallery (2020) and the Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris (2021). Her films combine aspects of feminism, performace, abstract narrative, and the physical properties of the medium.

"Sousa's films are formally rigorous, sensually present, and always inventive in their explorations of different cinematic properties." "whose Avant-Garde?" Tess Takashashi, 2016.