Directing
Raven Jackson
Born
1990-01-01 (36)
Place of birth
Tennessee, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Raven Jackson is an American award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, as well as the body's relationship to nature. Her short films Nettles and A Guide to Breathing Underwater are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. She is a Cave Canem fellow and holds MFAs from New York University's Graduate Film Program and the New School's Writing Program. Her chapbook of poetry, little violences, is available from Cutbank Literary Magazine. Raven’s debut narrative feature, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, made in partnership with Maria Altamirano, PASTEL, and A24, world-premiered in the US Dramatic …
Known for
5.4Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
2023
1.0Speaking through gesture, a dancer falls back into the land she grew from.
Røtter
2019
3.0Nettles are stinging plants. In six chapters, this short film explores stinging moments in the lives of different girls and women.
Nettles
2018
1.0Traversing New York City, a dancer seeks freedom and peace through movement.
A Guide to Breathing Underwater
2018
Behind the camera
5.4Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
2023
5.4Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
2023
1.0Speaking through gesture, a dancer falls back into the land she grew from.
Røtter
2019
1.0Speaking through gesture, a dancer falls back into the land she grew from.
Røtter
2019
3.0Nettles are stinging plants. In six chapters, this short film explores stinging moments in the lives of different girls and women.
Nettles
2018
3.0Nettles are stinging plants. In six chapters, this short film explores stinging moments in the lives of different girls and women.
Nettles
2018
1.0Traversing New York City, a dancer seeks freedom and peace through movement.
A Guide to Breathing Underwater
2018
1.0Traversing New York City, a dancer seeks freedom and peace through movement.
A Guide to Breathing Underwater
2018
1.0Traversing New York City, a dancer seeks freedom and peace through movement.
A Guide to Breathing Underwater
2018