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profile
Jessica is an award-winning literature graduate, editor, and writer on film. While living in Berlin, Jessica founded Wasteland, a collaborative online journal with a critical, academic lens on film and visual culture. Since then, in addition to her editorial position at Wasteland, she has become a staff writer for auteur-critique website Cineccentric and culture zine Unpublished, and a contributor for MUBI Notebook.
editorial
Jessica is the editor-in-chief of Wasteland and the corresponding Wasteland Newsletter, a monthly e-newsletter comprised of short essays on film. Each month, Jessica researches and curates the selection of films 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
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— January 2021, Unpublished Zine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— December 2020, Unpublished Zine
Bodies and Costumes in Ms. 45
— October 2020, Cineccentric
Unsexed as a Means to Survive: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
— June 2020, Wasteland
Silent and Visible: Queer Affect in Moonlight
— February 2020, Wasteland
The Dizzyingly Grotesque Fabric of Mulholland Drive
— April 2019, Wasteland
articles
My Dream Double-Bills
— February 2021, Unpublished Zine
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
Revisiting the Addictive, Feminine Pull of Midsommar
— August 2020, Unpublished Zine
Reality and Fiction in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman
— May 2020, Wasteland
lists
What I Watched in Lockdown
— September 2020, Unpublished Zine
A Year in Review: Revisiting the 2020 Oscar Nominees
— January 2020, Wasteland
Tracing the Screen
— July 2019, Wasteland
A Year in Review: Revisiting the 2019 Oscar Nominees
— February 2019, Wasteland
collaborations
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
reviews
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
— February 2021, Wasteland
Last Call
— November 2020, Cineccentric
Ammonite
— October 2020, Cineccentric for LFF 2020
The Human Voice
— October 2020, Cineccentric for LFF 2020
One Night in Miami
— October 2020, Cineccentric for LFF 2020
Relic
— October 2020, Cineccentric for LFF 2020
The Devil All The Time
— September 2020, Cineccentric
She Dies Tomorrow
— August 2020, Cineccentric
Marriage Story: a Masterclass in Visual Storytelling
— November 2019, Wasteland
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Best and Worst of Quentin Tarantino
— August 2019, Wasteland
press
Press delegate for the 64th BFI London Film Festival.
— October 2020
design
Web designer for Wasteland 's online journal.
education
BA Hons English and American Literature from the University of Kent, awarded first-class.
Recipient of the Rotary Prize for distinguished degree performance.
contact: jessica@wastelandarts.com