Tessa Hughes-Freeland

Tessa Hughes-Freeland is a British-born experimental film maker and writer living in New York City. Her films have screened internationally in North America, Europe and Australia and in prominent museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin. She has collaborated on live multi-media projects with musicians like John Zorn and J. G. Thirlwell. The co-founder of the New York Film Festival Downtown in 1984 and its co-director until 1990, she later served as President of the Board of Directors of the Film-Makers Co-Operative in New York City from 1998-2001. Hughes-Freeland has published articles in numerous books, including “Naked Lens: Beat Cinema” and “No Focus: Punk Film,” and in periodicals including PAPER Magazine, Filmmaker magazine, GQ, the East Village Eye, and Film Threat.