Jesse James Ewles (born December 13, 1980) is a Canadian independent visual artist in Toronto, Canada.
He has directed music videos for the bands Grizzly Bear, Of Montreal and Owen Pallett.[1] In January 2010, he completed his first short film for Bravo! TV entitled Kingdom of Frogs.[2] His main influences include Jan Švankmajer, Julian Schnabel, William Blake as well as Public Broadcasting animations from the 70's produced by the CBC and PBS.[3] Fables are a common theme in his work. On December 22, 2008, he was recognized by the web blog videos.antville.org as the best unsigned director of 2008.[4]