Jesse RK Wilson
20 years of work leaves a trail. Experimental archives, cohort collaborations, moments with mutants and misfits. These are the behind the scenes, short films, art films, and collaborations with all of my peers and clients over the course of this strange journey....
Selected Films & Documentation
My time as a caretaker at the Mojave Center was met with a century storm and a whirlwind of dreams. Desert days drenched and steeped in mysterious wonder. This story is a reflection in a rapidly fading pool, painted in my memory with the colors of fire in the sky.
Stepping out to Mask in the streets of New Orleans, after nine years of meticulously beading and dreaming. This is a master craftsman and true artist that I have the pleasure of calling my friend. This is a "Day in the Life" of a Mardi Gras Indian, and a small part of a continuing project and story we are telling together. As we are living it.
Making magic with my weird friends just for funsies. This is a collaboration with my buddy Drew "The Slurge" Ziegler.
An intricate, hand made journal cementing a custom pirate legend into the realms of the deep and the real world. Illustrated by quill and ink, it was presented to our special audience — The Blonde Hair of Three, saviors of the Grenadines.
Always striving to reach the next distant horizon.
Nothing like a wild alien babe to introduce you to her sentient garden and tell you how the world pollinates to some of your favorite music.
Escape Artists featured on tour with the Lifesize Mousetrap.
An Opera and a ghost story. Orange dust in the guts of a giant's dream.
Time capsules brought to life and greased up. Racing teams take to the track in the first models made for the sport.
Behind the scenes build for the Mini Cooper electric vehicle debut, 2019 Chase Center in San Francisco.
Moments captured in another time and space.
Behind the scenes of a custom build for a skate shop in Nevada City, CA. Gilded with Girl Power :)