Person
Jessica Bardsley
Directing
Biography
Jessica Bardsley is an artist-scholar working across film, writing, and studio art. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Practice and Theory at Colgate University and a Visiting Fellow in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Her films have screened within the U.S. and internationally at festivals like CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, EMAF, Flaherty NYC, RIDM, True/False, and many more. 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 Film Study Center fellowships. 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.
Known for

Life Without Dreams
Director

Goodbye Thelma
Director

The Making and Unmaking of the Earth
Director
The Commoners
Director
The Blazing World
Director
Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn Elam
Director

The Wren
Director
Filmography
- 2022Life Without DreamsDirector
- 2019Goodbye ThelmaDirector
- 2018The Making and Unmaking of the EarthDirector
- 2013Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn ElamDirector
- 2013The Blazing WorldDirector
- 2009The CommonersDirector
- 2008The WrenDirector
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