Jessica Bardsley
Assistant Professor | Area Head, Experimental
Jessica Bardsley is an artist-scholar working across film, writing, and studio art. Her films have screened across the U.S. and internationally at festivals like Sundance, Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, EMAF, RIDM, True/False, and on the Criterion Channel. She has received various awards, including a Princess Grace Award in Film, the Grand Prize at 25FPS, the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Short Film at Punto de Vista, numerous Harvard Film Study Center fellowships, and a North Shorts Grant and Residency. Her first feature film, The Cave Without a Name, was a finalist for the 2022-2023 Venice Biennale's Cinema College.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies have supported her research and writing.