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Jessica Bardsley: An Interview

Video Data Bank

2022 00:48:27 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video
Tags:
Film or Videomaking, Film Theory, Interview, VDB Interviews

Description

Jessica Bardsley is an artist-scholar working across film, writing, and studio art. Her interdisciplinary research takes an ecological approach to film and media within the global context of contemporary art. In addition to her work as a scholar, she is also an ecofeminist filmmaker. In this interview, Bardsley and interviewer Amy Beste discuss how cinema, poetry, photography, and the natural world have been inspiration for Bardsley, and how she uses autofiction–a combination of autobiography and fiction–in her current writing and moving image works.

The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collection features innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. The collection includes seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960's and continuing to the present. Works in the collection employ innovative uses of form and technology, mixed with original visual style to address contemporary art and cultural themes.

Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement in the United States, the Video Data Bank is one of the nation's largest providers of alternative and art-based video. Through a successful national and international distribution service, the VDB distributes video art, documentaries made by artists, and recorded interviews with visual artists, photographers and critics.