Jessie Rodger is a Director and Filmmaker from South Wales. She works at the meeting point between film and music. Jessie specialises in directing live concert experiences that feature live music alongside cinematic projection and 360 sound design as well as documentaries, multi-camera concert captures and multiscreen installations. She is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Âme Productions with Lawrence Power.
After studying French and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Jessie completed a Masters in Broadcast Journalism at City University London. She spent three years living and working in France with France 24, HEC Paris and Monocle, before moving to London to combine her love of storytelling with music. She has since collaborated with a wide variety of artists and cultural organisations. Jessie is classically trained on piano and clarinet and loves working with artists from different disciplines. She has a long term creative partnership with sound designer and music producer Brett Cox.
From the 3rd - 6th of September 2026 Jessie will direct a series of live shows by Peter Gregson at LightRoom, a creative response to the work of David Bowie and LightRoom’s current show David Bowie: You’re Not Alone.
Recent live shows she has directed include Darkness Visible, a cinematic show at the intersection of film and live performance, which took place on May 7th 2026 at the Barbican main hall and received 4 stars in The Times, Reflections, which was commissioned by Southbank Centre and toured to Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris on February 23rd 2026. Jessie is directing a long form documentary with Trio Gaspard following their recording of Haydn’s full set of trios and she continues to work closely with the team at 59 Studio and LightRoom, working as Editor on Vogue: Inventing the Runway, Má Vlast Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s touring multiscreen installation and Faces by choreographer Kim Brandstrup for Royal Opera House.
Past Projects include a series of short films with UKARIA (Australia), a bespoke multiscreen film at Outernet for Classical Pride featuring 4 drag artists including Barbs, a feature length film Breaking Bread with Manchester Collective and Where The Light Gets In, the digital edition of Change Music Festival (Sweden), and Lawrence Power’s Lockdown Commissions series, which was nominated for a Southbank Sky Arts Award in 2020.
collaborators and clients
Lawrence Power, LightRoom, Southbank Centre, Barbican, Manchester Collective, Philharmonia Orchestra, 59 Studio, UKARIA, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Vilde Frang, Alessio Bax, Platoon, Brompton Quartet, Outernet, Trio Gaspard, Pavel Kolesnikov, Nicola Benedetti, Oliver Zeffman, Solem Quartet, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Edmund Finnis, Roderick Williams, Digital Theatre, Héloïse Werner, Octavia Bright, Where The Light Gets In, Ruby Hughes, Sergio Bucheli, Grand Dishes, Britten Pears Arts, Manchester International Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Maker and Son, Harmonia Mundi, Change Music Festival, Monocle, France 24, Academy of Ancient Music, Brett Cox, Manchester Camerata, Alpha Classics, Dobrinka Tabakova, John Kendall, Sun Alexander, Nancy Nerantzi, Consone Quartet, West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, Juliet Fraser, Hinako Omori, Mike Lazarev
press
“This remarkable 90-minute project at the Barbican was simply wonderful (...) it took us on a haunting cinematic walk through the City of London at night”
“This ambitious and imaginative concert experience blended live and filmed performance (...) this was mesmerising. As an experiment in thinking through sound, in testing digital limits and amplifying the live concert experience, it has a lot going for it: the start of a longer conversation about how we experience music in a multimedia, post-internet age.”
“Power and Rodger created Âme,
a company dedicated to making multiformat works
with an emphasis on music and film”