Jessica Hankey is a Cambridge-based filmmaker whose projects use improvisation and performance with non-professional actors to consider how we interact with broader power structures. Being in relation with others, intimacy, and formal experimentation animate this work. Hankey attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow. She has exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Vox Populi, and Bowdoin College. Her films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, Slamdance, and the Atlanta Film Festival, and have been reviewed in Artforum, Glasstire, and the Chart. She co-edited the anthology Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance (MIT Press 2023) and is the publisher of Orbis Editions, an artist-run small press.