Jessica Bardsley is an artist and scholar. Her films have screened across 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. She is currently working on her first feature, The Cave Without a Name, an ode to night and nocturnal life, which was a finalist for the Venice Biennale's Cinema College (2022-2023). 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 an Assistant Professor at NYU Tisch.