Jessica McGoff
Selected Work
Video Essays
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Commissioned by Glasgow Short Film Festival / Sight & Sound Best Video Essays of 2021 / Selected for Bande à Part Competition Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival / 2021
Once Upon a Screen / The Cine-Files / Sight & Sound Best Video Essays of 2020 / Screen Studies AV Essay Film Award Winner / Screened at Museum of Moving Image as part of Expanded Screens / 2025
Commissioned by Critic's Choice International Film Festival Rotterdam: On Collectivity / Sight & Sound Best Video Essays of 2020
Writing
Alt/Kino / 2021
aemi / 2021
Existence and disappearance: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s At Those Terrifying Frontiers
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival / 2020-21
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)
Panels and Seminars
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Critics Choice / Sustainable Criticism / 2018
Glasgow Film Festival
Physical Impossibility / Anti-Villains / 2018
British Film Institute
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
In Conversation with Farah Nabulsi, 2021
Short Waves Festival, Poznań
What is Experimental Cinema? / 2022
Cinema Rediscovered
Film Critics Workshop Speaker / 2022
Curation
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Big Dog Energy / 2021
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Submissions Viewer 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023
CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2021 - present