I’m Ethan Evans-Jesra. I specialise in experimental filmmaking and documenting DIY music scenes. My work is often informed by my disdain for authority, and I use surrealism as a way to make sense of the parts of my life that feel surreal, like my neurodivergence and mixed-race heritage. I’m in the early stages of bringing a feature-length music documentary to life, I’ll be committing the next few years to a journey of archiving experimental music in DIY scenes across the UK.
ABOUT WORK
Murky Experiments
In preparation for my feature documentary, this short piece called Murky experiments focuses on my siblings’ avante guarde math rock band, leather.head. For obvious reasons I feel deeply connected to their music, the cutting explorations of grief we’ve experienced as a family, or general rage and resitance against our fascist goverment and its complicity in Israel's genocide on Gaza. For me their music is a necessary beacon of light in a world that can often feel hopeless and overbearingly dark.
Landscaper
‘Landscaper’ is an experimental short horror film that I co-directed. We took heavy inspiration from our heroes in directing: David Lynch, Shinya Tksumoto & Stan Brakhage. The film centers around an elderly landscape painter who finds his creative visions slipping as he observes the beauty of the countryside becoming corrupted by industrial infrastructure, forcing him to confront his own art. Landscaper explores how the destruction of the environment and commodification/corruption of art are interconnected issues, both suffering at the hands of capitalism.
