The Blazing World

Year2013 Duration19 min. DirectorJessica Bardsley WriterJessica Bardsley EditorJessica Bardsley

 

Festivals:

2013 Visions du Réel / 2013 RIDM Montréal / 2013 CPH:DOX / 2013 Kasseler Dokfest / 2014 Ann Arbor Film Festival / 2014 Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid / 2014 International Filmmaker Festival Milano

Spanish premiere

This is a first person essay on kleptomania, with Winona Ryder as a mirror of the author, who turns the film into a personal confession on the fine line that separates the tendency to shoplift and depression. A film about theft that is built using images stolen from other films.  

Filmography:

  • Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film about JoAnn Elam (2012)
  • The Art of Catching (2011)
  • The Commoners (2009)

CONTACT DETAILS:  

Jessica Bardsley
jessicabardsley@gmail.com

Jessica Bardsley

JESSICA BARDSLEY

Jem Cohen

Jessica Bardsley is a film artist whose work has screened across the U.S. and internationally at festivals like RIDM, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, Antimatter Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Rooftop Films and more. She has won awards such as the Grand Prix at 25FPS and the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

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Promoted by
Gobierno de Navarra
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Con la financiación del Gobierno de España. Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales Acción Cultural Española Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia Financiado por la Unión Europea. NexGenerationEU
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