about Jason J. Gleeson (South Africa/UK): Artist, Director, Producer, Filmmaker, Writer, Musician, Composer, Recording Engineer/ Record Producer & Guerrilla Creative [for hire].
Born late 1975 in Cape Town, based in London and prepared to travel the rest of the world. I used to be dyslexic and now I am interested in everything.
GIANTLANDS - a community led motion picture project - 02008 from Jason Gleeson on Vimeo.
career highlights: Getting work funded, supported and seen is always a highlight. I recently finished a Sci/Fi, Docu/drama called Giantlands, working with a group of 30 adults with enduring mental health issues. I have also just finished producing a free-to-download LP with The Dodo Fightback. Otherwise I equate reflection to retirement... and retirement to death.
which creative people, places and things on your radar right now?
People: Jake and Dinos Chapman, Shaun Doyle, Mally Mallinson, Harriet Murray, James Unsworth, Neil Taylor, who can all be found at the Campbell Works Gallery, Stoke Newington, London.
I am also a fan of Matthew Barney, Harmony Korine, Werner Herzog, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, and Billy Childish.
My artist friends, Leslie Deere, Richard Green and Astrid Johannesson are the real deal - not just their work but the connections their work makes, how it challenges and changes our perceptions, and how they choose to live their lives is a real inspiration for me.
Places and other stuff on my mind: Madagascar, the Arctic region, open borders/global equality and the last two fully unexplored places on earth - underwater regions and consciousness.
what’s your favourite daydream? I am lying down on my back looking up at the sky and a part of me falls from the sky into my body and then the whole of me gets sucked into the blue yonder - I don't just fall to earth, I also fall the other way, like falling off the earth – a kind of personal rapture - it feels like nothing on earth... very therapeutic.
what was the last rule you broke? I have worked illegally in a few countries, and shot films without shooting permissions. These are the kinds of rules I don't care about; otherwise I always buy a train ticket and always stop at red lights on my bicycle.
if you could ask a question of someone you respect, who and what would you ask?
Dear Thor - god of thunder - "Do you feel marginalised by those other two dudes, and are you planning a comeback revival tour?" We need some imagination.
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