Jacqueline (Athens, 1989)  is a lens based artist whose cinematic language involves, among others, discovering poetry in -seemingly- mundane premises and zooming in ‘tiny’ moments.  A London Film School graduate (2013), Jacqueline was quick to unravel her idiosyncratic style which includes sourcing from the dream construct, intuitive knowing, word & image association. She enjoys working with different textures, from her ‘native’ hi8 to 16mm and digital, often merging them to portray the multidimensionality of the human experience. 

Her work has screened in Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno and Toronto and has received numerous prominent awards. She won, among others, Best Film by Cinema and Gioventu Jury in Locarno for FOX (2016), the Leica Cine Discovery Award by Semaine de La Critique- Cannes  for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), the Golden Hugo in Chicago IFF for The End of Suffering (2020), as well as the Grand Prix in Reykjavik IFF and Sevilla IFF for Moon, 66 Questions (2021), her debut feature which premiered in Berlinale Encounters Competition, receiving raving reviews worldwide.  In July 2022, Moon, 66 questions was announced as New York Times’ Critics’ Pick. Retrospectives on her full body of work have taken place in Montreal, Vienna, Ghent as well as in London, in the historic ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), in June 2022. 

High-profile curatorial websites, such as Mubi, The Criterion Channel, Le Cinema Club and E-flux have hosted Jacqueline’s films while her sophomore project, ‘A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra’ won the Arri Award for cinematic vision in Torino Film Lab 2024. She has screened her work twice at the MoMa (New Directors/New Films) (2019, 2021), in Palais De Tokyo, and in the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. 

Jacqueline reached the three finalists for the prestigious Rolex Mentor&Protegé scheme 2022-2024, and she was honored to have a meeting with Master Jia Zhangke. The same year she was awarded the New York Onassis fellowship, as well as the NIPKOW fellowship for her second feature which was further developed in Cannes’ Next Step Vol II, in Corsica, in 2024.