Abstract black and white artwork featuring swirling lines, crescent shapes, circles, and star-like patterns.
Close-up of a person wearing beige pants and a gray jacket, with their hand grabbing a small brown dog on a leash, on a gravel path surrounded by grass.

Jesse Gilbert

Person standing inside a large red paper lantern with a circular shape and radial spokes.
A double exposure photograph combining a woman with long hair and a landscape of tall grass and water.

BIO / Jesse Gilbert

Jesse is an award winning Irish filmmaker from the Beara Peninsula.

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film work

A scenic landscape of mountains and greenery behind black vertical bars with the word 'Gleann' overlaid in large cream-colored letters. There are floral decorations on each side with text indicating film festival selections and awards, and a small logo for arts council funding at the bottom.

Gleann - Feature Documentary

Gleann is a love letter to a remote valley on the Beara Peninsula. Throughout a cycle of the seasons, we drift between its inhabitants as they talk about life, love, death and bees. From farmers to musicians, children to nonagenarians we accompany a year in the life of a place and its people.


Official Selection: Galway Film Fleadh, Cork Independant Film Festival, Kerry International Film Festival

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A woman sitting outdoors with her head resting on her hand, looking downward, appearing upset or contemplative.

Saltwater - Short Film

Saltwater is a short film about grief, loss and the power of the Atlantic. It draws on Irish and Icelandic myth and folklore to imbue it with elements of magical realism. 


​Official selection: Cork International Film Festival, Fastnet Film Festival
Winner: Audience Award Beara Film Festival

A man working in a woodworking workshop with a black and white dog near his feet.

Ballast - short film

Ballast traces the life of Michael, a man consumed by grief who builds an Hot air Balloon out of tissue paper.
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Winner: Best Debut Short, Galway Film Fleadh
Winner: Best Cork Short, Cork International Film Festival
Winner: Stockholm Indépendant Film Festival
​Finalist: Sheffield Independent Film Festival

Official selection: Chicago Irish film festival, Fastnet Film Festival, Still Voices Film Festival, Waterford International Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, The Richard Harris International Film Festival.

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The cover of a film titled 'To the Sea' features two boys squatting on a sandy cliff with dry grass, smiling against a bright blue sky. The film is edited by Sarah Hollins and has sound by Neil Quigley. The Cork County Council and Arts Council logos are at the bottom.
An art exhibition displaying various sculptures and miniature models inside a gallery with white walls and wooden flooring.

To The Sea - experimental short

To The Sea follows two young brothers on a magical adventure to the beach.
Official selection: cork independant film festival, Dingle Film festival.

What Is The Case

Commissioned film detailing the work of a sculptor. The exhibition was a posthumous retrospective of his last series before his death and was filmed in Bury Gallery, Manchester.

Two people looking through a cylindrical object, with their faces close together, viewed from inside the cylinder.

The Way - short film

The Way ​is a dark comedy about two siblings, Candice and Artemus. They travel the country selling the cremated ashes of their semi-famous father.
Official selection: ​ Watford Film Festival

jgilbertfilm@gmail.com