Baker Artist Portfolios

Jules Rosskam is an award-winning filmmaker, educator and interdisciplinary artist. Through the lens of autoethnography and the use of hybrid forms, his work investigates the means by which we construct individual and collective histories. He is consistently drawn to the rich discursive space of the liminal: the space between male and female, between documentary and fiction, between moving image and still. The liminal is a space in which identity dissolves and the possibility of new perspectives emerges. This space is a threshold; one in which there is, at least temporarily, a suspended state of becoming.

Rosskam's films cross cinematic boundaries through experimentation with hybrid forms in order to highlight the fact that boundaries—of identity, discipline, geography— are porous. Cinema, as a projective space, is a space to see and be seen; one imbued with the utopian possibilities for individual and collective transformation.

He is the director, producer, and editor of transparent (2005), against a trans narrative (2009), Thick Relations (2012), Something to Cry About (2018),  Paternal Rites (2018), Dance, Dance, Evolution (2019), and Desire Lines (2024). Recent screenings include Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, the British Film Institute, the Gene Siskel Film Center, Anthology Film Archives, Arsenal Berlin, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, and the Queens Museum of Art. Recent residencies include Yaddo, Marble House Project, PLAYA, ACRE, and ISSUE Project Room. Rosskam holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Film, Video, New Media, 2008). He is currently Associate Professor of Visual Arts at University of Maryland Baltimore County.