Jackie Turpin
Directing
Biography
Jackie Turpin is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles, CA. Her practice is rooted in animation and takes the form of saturated, hyper-kinetic short films, installations, and performances that explore the interweaving of personal mythology, popular culture and media histories. Herwork has been shown in film festivals, galleries, and museums. Jackie earned her MFA in Design | Media Arts from UCLA in 2018 and her BFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2015.
Known For
Intimacy on display. My skin pressed. Pooling between plates of touch screen glass, video blue with anticipation. The body surveilled, the body yearned for, the body paid for. Endless loops of films of tapes of the endless present of the endless scroll. Our endless role flayed agape for all to see in 4k's and traced rays.
theBody
An expressionistic journey through the gilt-pop-entrapment in which we find ourselves.
TheBox
An ambient film meditating on the sea and the passage of time.