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.