Jessica McGoff
Marketing
Filmmaking
Writing
Curation
Teaching
Marketing Work
Current
Marketing Manager, Take Me Somewhere (2025 - present)
Marketing Manager, HippFest (2025 - present)
Marketing Manager, Al Seed Productions (2026 - present)
Digital Marketing Specialist, Creative Glasgow (2024 - present)
Previous
Communications Manager, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (2021 - 2025)
Digital and Social Media Manager, Bloody Scotland (2021)
Filmmaking and Video Essays
2022
Cards on the Table: A Tarot-Guided Journey through the Cinema of Nina Menkes
Commissioned by Arbelos Films for limited edition blu-ray Cinematic Sorceress - The Films of Nina Menkes
Commissioned by BFI for In Dreams Are Monsters
Commissioned by Picturehouses to support the release of Happening
2021
Commissioned by BFI to support the release of Balloon
Commissioned for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021. Premiered as part of the Opening Screening of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021. Played in Competition (Bande À Part) at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival.
2020
Part of the Once Upon A Screen project. Published in online journal The Cine-Files. 2020. Second-most mentioned in Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2020. Winner of the inaugural Screen Studies Conference AV Essay Film Award. Screened at Museum of Moving Image as part of Expanded Screens 2025.
Commisioned as part of Critics’ Choice VI: On Collectivity at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020.
Premiered there as a response to Janis Rafa's Kala Azar.
2019
The Wonders
Commissioned as part of Creative Europe Desk UK’s virtual conference TRANSFORM.
A horror in the breach: Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day
Commissioned by Sight and Sound.
2018
Commissioned as part of the Critics Choice IV: Sustainable Criticism at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.
Screened there as introduction to Western (Valeska Greisbach).
Published and peer-reviewed in journal InTransition.
2015 - 2017
Fandor (various commissioned essays)
Writing
Where to Find Palestine Alt/Kino. 2021.
Introductory Text: Dingbox by Aoibheann Greenan aemi. 2021.
Existence and disappearance: On documentation, the un-real image, and surveillance as a biopolitical weapon against Palestinian life in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s At Those Terrifying Frontiers Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. 20/21.
The SoundCloud Rappers at the End of the World: on Crestone Bright Wall/Dark Room. 2021.
Live(stream) and In Person: Watching Zia Anger’s My First Film in the Age of Quarantine Cinema Scope. Issue 83 (Summer, 2020).
High Fashion Horror. The Final Girls' Bloody Women Journal. 2020.
Krabi 2562 by Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong Desistfilm. 2019.
Mushrooms and Glitches: By the Time It Gets Dark and the Anthropocene. Another Gaze. Issue 02.
The Ghosts and Ghostliness of Tracey Moffatt’s BeDevil. MUBI Notebook. 2018.
Panels, Seminars, Teaching
European Network of Discourse (Slovenia)
Guest Mentor, Fekk Festival / 2023 / 2024 / 2025
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Critics Choice / Sustainable Criticism / 2018
Glasgow Film Festival (Scotland)
Physical Impossibility / Anti-Villains / 2018
British Film Institute (UK)
Women With a Movie Camera / Female Authorship / 2019
The University of Braunschweig (Germany)
Videographic Criticism Conference / 2019
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
The Aesthetics of Video Essay / 2020
Queen Margaret University (Scotland)
Film and Media Talks / 2021
Short Circuit (UK)
In Conversation with Farah Nabulsi, 2021
Short Waves Festival, Poznań (Poland)
What is Experimental Cinema? / 2022
Cinema Rediscovered (UK)
Film Critics Workshop Speaker / 2022
Academics
The University of Glasgow
Film and Television Studies BA/MA (First Class Honours)
2012 - 2016
Dissertation: Deleuzian Masochism in the Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Supervised by Prof. D Martin-Jones.
The University of Amsterdam
Masters of Arts (Cum Laude/With Distinction)
2016 - 2017
Thesis: Expresser, Agitator, Salve and Mirror: the Video Essay and Contemporary Cinephilia
Supervised by Dr. M.A.M.B. Baronian