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Jessica Bardsley

Born 1987 - Massachusetts

Jessica Bardsley is an artist-scholar working across film, writing, and studio art. Her films have screened within the U.S. and internationally at festivals like CPH:DOX, Sundance, Visions du Réel, EMAF, RIDM, True/False, and on the Criterion Channel. She is the recipient of various awards, including a Princess Grace Award, Grand Prize at 25FPS, the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Short Film at Punto de Vista, and numerous Harvard Film Study Center fellowships. Her first feature film, The Cave Without a Name, was a finalist for the 2022-2023 Venice Biennale's Cinema College.

Her research and writing have been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies. She received a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

See also: Jessica Bardsley: An Interview


Available Titles by Jessica Bardsley

Title Year Runtime Collection
Goodbye Thelma 2019 00:13:30 Single Titles
Life Without Dreams 2022 00:13:30 Single Titles
The Making and Unmaking of the Earth 2018 00:15:48 Single Titles
The Blazing World 2013 00:19:05 Single Titles

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