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profile
Jessica is an editor and writer on film based in the UK. Whilst studying in Berlin, Jessica founded Wasteland, a collaborative online journal with an aesthetic lens on film and visual culture. Jessica will begin studying for a postgraduate degree in film at the University of Oxford in the autumn of 2021.
editorial
Since 2018, Jessica has been the editor-in-chief of Wasteland and its corresponding monthly newsletter, comprised of short essays on film. Each month, Jessica researches and curates the selection of films featured in accordance with the issue's theme, which she also selects. Recent issues have included: women behind the camera, performance, alternative animation, shorts, and placelessness.
essays
Staging the Body: Saint Maud
— March 2021, Unpublished Zine
Close-Up
— March 2021, Wasteland
Wanda
— March 2021, Wasteland
Slouching Towards Nowhere: The Graduate
— February 2021, Cineccentric
Morvern Callar: Reaching for the Illegible
— January 2021, Unpublished Zine
Synthetically Eroded: Femme Fatales in Double Indemnity and Chinatown
— January 2021, Wasteland
Visualising Liberation in "But I'm a Cheerleader"
— December 2020, MUBI Notebook
Documenting Feeling in Claudia Weill's 'Girlfriends'
— December 2020, Unpublished Zine
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
— June 2020, Wasteland
articles
Betty Blue
— February 2021, Wasteland
A Cocktail of Confection: What a Way to Go!
— January 2021, Wasteland
La Haine
— January 2021, Wasteland
Asparagus
— December 2020, Wasteland
Perfect Blue
— December 2020, Wasteland
Possibly in Michigan
— November 2020, Wasteland
Cathexis in Toshio Matsumoto's Atman
— November 2020, Wasteland
Together, Separately: Maya Deren
— November 2020, Wasteland
The Theatrics of Tragedy in Demons
— October 2020, Cineccentric
Eyes Without a Face
— October 2020, Wasteland
Eyes Wide Shut
— October 2020, Wasteland
Reality and Fiction in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman
— May 2020, Wasteland
reviews
My Last Summer
— March 2021, Cineccentric
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
— February 2021, Wasteland
Last Call
— November 2020, Cineccentric
Ammonite
— October 2020, Cineccentric
The Human Voice
— October 2020, Cineccentric
One Night in Miami
— October 2020, Cineccentric
Relic
— October 2020, Cineccentric
The Devil All The Time
— September 2020, Cineccentric
She Dies Tomorrow
— August 2020, Cineccentric
lists
Must-See Self-Directed Films
— April 2021, Unpublished Zine
My Dream Double-Bills
— February 2021, Unpublished Zine
What I Watched in Lockdown
— September 2020, Unpublished Zine
collaborations
Discussing Vagabond
— March 2021, Cineccentric
In Memoriam 2019-20
— December 2020, Cineccentric
Short Films from the BFI London Film Festival
— November 2020, Cineccentric
The Forgotten Films of Halloween
— October 2020, Unpublished Zine
The Films of Chantal Akerman
— October 2020, Cineccentric
The Films of Chadwick Boseman
— September 2020, Cineccentric
press
Press delegate for the 2021 BFI Flare Film Festival.
— March 2021
Press delegate for the 64th BFI London Film Festival.
— October 2020
design
Web designer for Wasteland 's online journal.
academia
Awarded the University of Kent's Humanities Rotary Prize for distinguished degree performance.
— June 2020
Graduated with BA (Hons) in English and American Literature with an Approved Year Abroad from the University of Kent, awarded first-class.
— July 2020
Studied Film, Literature, Gender Studies, and History of Art at Freie Universität Berlin.
— September 2018-19
contact: jessica@wastelandarts.com