Jesse Richards

Studied film production at the School of Visual Arts in NY (1994-1996) until he had a nervous breakdown and, quit, choosing next to move in with a psychotic Yale girl. Continued making short punk/juvenile delinquent films after that from 1996-1998, most of which were destroyed in a plumbing mishap, and in response, went on a roadtrip to Memphis. In 1997 began working with Matthew Martin VI, who he next directed in Hamlet and Look Back in Anger for the Martin-helmed New Haven Theatre Company. In 1999 Richards was arrested for reckless burning, destruction of property and disorderly conduct, charges were dropped, and he began painting. In the summer of 2001 Richards began his affiliation with the London-based art movement Stuckism, and first showed his work with them, and in 2002 opened the Stuckism International Center-USA, and helped co-organize art shows, including the anti-war show, The War On Bush. 2003 and 2004 end up being creatively busy years for him. His film, Shooting at the Moon (2003), a punk/j.d. love story co-directed with Nic Watson premiered in NYC at NY International Independent Film and Video Festival in Nov. 2003, and then he was included as a painter in the Stuckists first major national gallery art exhibition at the Walker, in Liverpool in 2004, called the Stuckists Punk Victorian. Co-founds Remodernist Film and Photography in 2004, fellow Remodernists include Amos Poe, Harris Smith, Matthew Martin VI and Nicholas Watson.