Born in Geelong, Australia. Lives in Paris, France. Write to me : amararossjayne@gmail.com SELECTED SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES WOODWARD LINE POETRY SERIES, DETROIT, USA, JUNE 2018 (S)HIVER WINTER ARTS FESTIVAL, DAWSON CITY, CANADA, JANUARY 2018 TRINOSOPHES, DETROIT, USA, SEPTEMBER 2016 THE SCARAB CLUB, DETROIT, USA, SEPTEMBER 2016 LA GALERIE DES BALADES SONORES (SOLO EXHIBITION), PARIS, FRANCE, JANUARY 2015 BRISBANE FRINGE FESTIVAL, AUSTRALIA, AUGUST 2014 AUDITORIUM SAINT GERMAIN, PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE 2014 BÍÓ PARADÍS, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, FEBRUARY 2014 GÚTTÓ GALLERY, SAUÐÁRKRÓKUR, ICELAND, FEBRUARY 2014 SOIRÉE VAGH/ROSS, CINÉMA LA CLEF, PARIS, FRANCE, NOVEMBER 2013 ATK GALLERY, HANOI, VIETNAM, OCTOBER 2013 OKLAHOMA, MANCHESTER, UK, SEPTEMBER 2013 CUPOLA CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, SHEFFIELD, UK, SEPTEMBER 2013 DBE FESTIVAL, TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA, AUGUST 2013 FESTIVAL JEUNE CRÉATION, LE 104, PARIS, FRANCE, NOVEMBER 2012 FESTIVAL LES ROCKOMOTIVES, VENDÔME, FRANCE, NOVEMBER 2012 FESTIVAL SIGNES DE NUIT, CINÉMA ACTION CHRISTINE, PARIS, FRANCE, OCTOBER 2012 LE DIVAN DU MONDE, PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE 2012 CÔTÉ COURT FESTIVAL, PANTIN, FRANCE, JUNE 2012 LA GAITÉ LYRIQUE, PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE 2012 LE 106, ROUEN, FRANCE, JUNE 2012 MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN, STRASBOURG, FRANCE, MARCH 2012 LA PÉNICHE, LILLE, FRANCE, MARCH 2012 INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART, PARIS, FRANCE, FEBRUARY 2012 MO'FO FESTIVAL, SAINT OUEN, FRANCE, JANUARY 2012 PROTOS OROFOS, THESSALONIKI, GREECE, JANUARY 2012 SIX DOGS GALLERY, ATHENS, GREECE, JANUARY 2012 SOIRÉE PLATEFORM MAGAZINE, LA BELLEVILLOISE, JANUARY 2012 LE CAFÉ DE LA DANSE, PARIS, FRANCE, DECEMBER 2011 CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, GLASGOW, UK, NOVEMBER 2011 ST MERRY CHURCH, PARIS, FRANCE, SEPTEMBER 2011 CÔTÉ COURT FESTIVAL, PANTIN, FRANCE, JUNE 2011 FIAG AT LA GARE AUX GORILLES, PARIS, FRANCE, OCTOBER 2010 LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE, PARIS, FRANCE, JULY 2010 ST EUSTACHE CHURCH, PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE 2010 CÔTÉ COURT FESTIVAL, PANTIN, FRANCE, JUNE 2010 LA SOCIÉTÉ DE CURIOSITÉS, PARIS, FRANCE, APRIL 2010 GLAZART, PARIS, FRANCE, SEPTEMBER 2009 FILMER LA MUSIQUE, PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE 2009 GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & RELEASES POPPS PACKING RESIDENCY, DETROIT, USA, JUNE 2018 INSIDEZONE POETRY RESIDENCY, BORSEC, ROMANIA, FEBRUARY 2017 MOTHLIGHT MICROCINEMA RESIDENCY, DETROIT, USA, SEPTEMBER 2016 PRISMA RESIDENCY, DOMAINE DES BOISSETS, LOZÈRE, FRANCE, JULY 2015 THE WEIGHT OF MOUNTAINS RESIDENCY, SKAGASTRÖND, ICELAND, 2013-2014 THE FREEMARTIN CALF DVD RELEASE ON GIZEH RECORDS, NOVEMBER 2014 TRAILER FOR THE 20TH EDITION OF CÔTÉ COURT FESTIVAL, PANTIN, FRANCE 2011 AS TRUE AS TROILUS DVD RELEASE ON GIZEH RECORDS, SEPTEMBER 2011 IMAGE/MOVEMENT GRANT, CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS PLASTIQUES, FRANCE, MARCH 2011 SELECTED PRESS QUOTES The work of Jayne Amara Ross fascinates and fills one with wonder. Her films are amazingly masterful, bringing to light an intimate mythology that is raw, breathless, striking. Here the most ambitious poetic challenges are met and from this emerges something rare and precious, quite invaluable these days : a female answer to fundamental human questions. Gabriela Trujillo (Culturopoing, 2011) Visual symphonies play soundtrack to the poetic voice-over, expanding into a series of images of rare filmic beauty (…). We are shaken by the truth that resides in this innovative expression of the female experience. Raphaël Bassan (Revue Bref, 2013) Ross’ words come across as both challenge and requiem, an impossible tightrope that she somehow manages to cross, in the manner of predecessor poets such as Sylvia Plath and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. When hearing her intonations for the first time, backed by the cacophonous hollows of the band, one forgets to breathe; after the exhalation, one gasps, “what did I just hear?” In like fashion, those viewing the film are likely to whisper, “what did i just see?”, Followed by the heartbreaking admittance, “it will hurt me, but i have to hear it again” Richard Allen (The Silent Ballet – review of Farewell Poetry’s first release, 2011) Jayne Amara Ross constructs poems of meaning, image, type-film semiology. A ‘bale of black turtles’, over dada, the grinch smirks, her dark marauder is lady death. Cindy Lou who, Plath and Rosemarie Waldrop. A contemporary modernist hobbyhorse meets Christian Metz. As Hugo Ball flips it open, as the devil’s dictionary translates, open and as image, moving. Detroit says thanks for coming! James Hart III (poet and curator of Woodward Line Detroit Poetry Series, 2018) PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDY JULIA |