Movies: Jess MacCormack

A music video for Rae Spoon about the violence transgender and genderqueer people face in their daily lives, and how mutual support gets us through....

An experimental animation with original sound exploring “how identity development is informed (and sometimes controlled) by psychiatry’s relationship with capitalism and its broader political objectives.” The video focuses on three themes: the histor...

This animation uses watercolor paintings of child-morphed creatures, poppies and dismembered legs, based on collaged photos from my animation ‘Nothing ever happened’, to produce a commentary on loss. Set to the song ‘Love is a Hunter’ by Rae Spoon re...

A video based on a report on the Weimar/Ichtershausen Juvenile Prison, written by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. A collaboration with Steven Brown (sound/narritive)....

An experimental animation that illustrates a surreal internal landscape occupied by child creatures and animal imagery. A child goes off to school and must reevaluate everything they have known. Fish, dogs, cats & birds interact with fish tanks, livi...

This is the first part of a four part experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada. Many women find creative ways to survive, their stories illuminate the strength and courage these women show as well as the oppressive conditions...