Jake Oleson
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About the Artist
Jake Oleson is a filmmaker, musician, and audiovisual artist based in New York, USA. He works across cinema, electronic music, and live performance, making work about memory, perception, and what images can and can't hold onto.
His immersive VR film Currents, commissioned by Vimeo and Apple for the Vision Pro, premiered at SXSW, and his work has been presented at SIGGRAPH, New York Tech Week, and the Flux Festival of Innovation. He released his debut EP on Max Cooper's Mesh label and performs Signal, a live audiovisual show built from 16mm film and generative imagery mixed in real time, most recently opening for Max Cooper in New York.
About the Work
A boy runs out into a winter storm. By the time he stops, the way home he knows by heart is gone. Just when he believes he is lost, a light finds him and fills the snow with the warmest memories of the winters he shared with his father, until his father finds him and they walk home together, hand in hand.
Made from the artist’s own family photographs, The Way Home is a holiday story about family, coming home, and the love that was there all along.