Jimmy Joe Roche
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| Jimmy Joe Roche | |
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| Born | James Joseph Roche Tallahassee, FL |
| Occupation | Visual artist, Filmmaker, Actor |
| Years active | 2003 to Current |
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Jimmy Joe Roche is visual artist and underground filmmaker, based in Baltimore, MD. He is a long-time collaborator of the Baltimore-based musician Dan Deacon.
[edit] Career
Roche's works have been screened in venues and museums all over the U.S. and Canada including the Corcoran Museum of Art[1], Walters Museum of Art[2], Anthology Film Archives, New York Underground Film Festival[3], Yale College, the Great America Music Hall, and San Francisco international Animation festival to name only a few. His recent collaboration, Ultimate Reality, with musician Dan Deacon has gained national press attention [4][5]. Roche has also worked with the academy award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, most recently acting in the film Dancing with Shiva, now in post production[6]. In 2006 he shot and edited the Neil Young Heart of gold: Behind the scenes featuret[7], and in 2003 he worked with Demme to create the journal for the for the lunatic Corporal Melvin in the Paramount film the Manchurian Candidate[8]. Recently Roche's short film Baltimore Shopping Network was featured on the New Museum's website Rizhome.com[9], and his music video for Deacon's Crystal Cat was featured on the front page of YouTube, gathering over half a million hits[10]. In June 2008 Roche will have his first solo exhibition of his work at R.A.R.E Gallery in Manhattan, Chelsea[11].
[edit] Education
Roche Received his BFA from SUNY Purchase in Film in 2004, and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008.
