About Jimmy Joe

Baltimore City

Jimmy Joe Roche is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses video, sculpture, and performance. He runs the record label Ultraviolet Light and co-curates New Works, a screening series dedicated to showcasing film and video artists based in Baltimore. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Film and Media Studies Department at Johns Hopkins University, and holds a BFA from S.U.N.Y. Purchase in Film and an MFA from MICA in Studio Art. Roche has two human children,… more

Skin of Man (2020)

Skin of Man is an experimental horror film written and directed by Jimmy Joe Roche, produced by Matt Porterfield (Putty Hill, Sollers Point) and featuring an original score by Dan Deacon (Rat Film). The film was shot on 16mm and bucket-processed in a dank, pitch-black hole. Roche then used insecticide, drano, and gasoline to disfigure the emulsion. As the psychodrama of the film escalates, the 16mm image begins to sweat, melt and erode. Skin of Man draws inspiration from structural filmmakers and chemists like Phil Solomon, Bridget & Wilhelm Hein and Peter Tscherkassky, as well as the visionary cult films Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Begotten.

 

 

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    Skin of Man

    A still from Skin of Man: an actor in prosthetics on location in Double Rock Park.

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    Skin of Man

    A still from Skin of Man showing the bleaching technique used on the 16mm image.

  • Skin of Man
    Skin of Man

    A still from Skin of Man.

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    Skin of Man

    A still from Skin of Man.

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    Skin of Man

    Kiera Mulhern in Skin of Man.

  • Skin of Man
    Skin of Man

    A still from Skin of Man showing the bleaching technique used on the 16mm image.

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    Skin of Man

    Behind-the-scenes on Skin of Man.

  • Skin of Man
    Skin of Man

    Behind-the-scenes on Skin of Man.

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    Skin of Man

    A 35mm production still from Skin of Man.

  • Skin of Man

    Skin of Man (2020, 10 mins)