Jess Silber Asks: If We Don’t Lift Each Other Up, Who Will?

Jess Silber is an artist and a filmmaker committed to increase representation in music and the film industry. With her new song “it hurts to love a woman,” Silber combines her talents with a song of painful realization. For the video, Silber employed a distinctive filmmaking approach, shooting half of the music video on a high-end RED camera and the other half on a humble $20 camcorder. This intentional visual duality highlights the juxtaposition of two drastically different experiences, in the same exact space. Silber shares the origins of this project as well as how she hopes to make her mark on Hollywood and beyond.