Jessica Bardsley

Jessica Bardsley is Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is an artist and scholar working across film, writing, and studio art. Her films have screened across the U.S. and internationally at festivals like Sundance, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, 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, among others. Her first feature film, The Cave Without a Name, was a finalist for the 2022 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, an M.A. and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.A. from the New College of Florida.