Jessica Bishopp

Feb 8, 2024 | emergencemagazine.org | Jessica Bishopp

Director Jessica Bishopp is an award-winning director and documentary filmmaker whose work explores subcultures, myth, and our connection to place. Her short film Puffling premiered at SXSW and won the Oscar Qualifying Jury Award for Documentary at Aspen Shortsfest; another of her short films, Skyward, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and was shortlisted for a Grierson Award.

Nov 8, 2023 | newyorker.com | Jessica Bishopp |Chloe Xiang

A girl is peering out of her foggy car window, surveying the dark, quiet roads that signal a town that has gone to sleep. Outside, the only colors that appear are from hazy yellow and orange street lamps. She is searching for baby puffins, or “pufflings,” in the night sky, as they drop from cliffs into the town. The teen-ager looks around for any flurries of white—as the birds’ bright stomachs can be spotted against the dark.