1. Jesse Beau Richards was born on July 17,1975 and is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism.
18 Facts About Jesse Richards
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Jesse Richards had an ambition to be a forest ranger during his teens, which was the time he started to make films.
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Jesse Richards studied film production at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, which he left after a nervous breakdown.
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Jesse Richards directed plays including Hamlet and Look Back In Anger for the New Haven Theatre Company, and made short romance and punk films.
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In 1999, Richards was arrested for reckless burning, destruction of property and disorderly conduct.
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Jesse Richards is affiliated with the Stuckist art movement in 2001 and founded a gallery as the first Stuckism center in the United States in 2002, helping to organize shows.
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Jesse Richards said the original intention of a straightforward art show to an anti-war show had been changed after a phone discussion with Stuckism founder, Charles Thomson.
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In 2004, Jesse Richards was one of eight artists in the "International Stuckists" section of The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery during the Liverpool Biennial.
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In 2005,160 paintings from the Walker Art Gallery show, including one by Jesse Richards, were offered as a donation to the Tate gallery, but rejected by Sir Nicholas Serota, because "We do not feel that the work is of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection".
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In 2005, Jesse Richards was a co-ordinator of, and participated in, Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism, the first Remodernism exhibition in the US to include work from all of the Remodernist groups, including the Stuckists, the Defastenists, Remodernist Film and Photography, and Stuckism Photography.
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In 2006, Jesse Richards was one of the artists in The Triumph of Stuckism, a show at Liverpool John Moores University Hope Street Gallery, curated by Naive John at the invitation of Professor Colin Fallows, Chair of Research at Liverpool School of Art and Design, and part of the Liverpool Biennial 2006.
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Jesse Richards has worked on films with Nicholas Watson since 1996.
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In 2003, Jesse Richards co-produced Shooting at the Moon, a short film premiering at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
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Jesse Richards said that his films had previously often contained nudity, but this time he wanted to do the opposite and the two leads do not quite even kiss:.
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In December 2010, Jesse Richards joined the Board of Directors of Cine Foundation International.
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In 2008, Jesse Richards published a Remodernist Film Manifesto, calling for a "new spirituality in cinema" and the use of intuition in filmmaking.
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Jesse Richards described Remodernist film as a "stripped down, minimal, lyrical, punk kind of filmmaking",.
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Jesse Richards describes his specific approach to Remodernist filmmaking as well:.