Selected Filmography by Jessica Jacobs

Filmmaker and Geographer Jessica Jacobs

Watch films by Jessica Jacobs and exclusive outputs from her filmmaking workshops

Below are selected outputs from community focused and place-based filmmaking projects highlighting the importance of cultural heritage, not just as something to be preserved but as a source of crucial knowledge that will help us to mitigate and adapt to the climate crises.

Sinai Stories – Storytelling for All 2025

The AHRC funded Storytelling for All project combined crafting with filmmaking methodologies to celebrate and document the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the Bedouin communities in Sinai, Egypt. The short animations, made by Bedouin women in Dahab and St. Catherine’s, highlight the value of traditional knowledge as a sustainable practice for climate change mitigation, and emphasize the vital role of of matrilineal intergenerational knowledge transfer.

The Tomato 01:48
The Wedding 00:55
Om Saad 00:32
The Fisherman 00:52
Al Ajram 01:14
Testimonials 07:49
Hungry Camel 00:33
Springtime 03:13

Place-based Filmmaking – The People’s Stories, South Cotabato Philippines 2023

A short film about the Project Helper Literacy Project in Tupi made by Leny D. Obra and Michael Loc as part of The People’s Stories – Assessing the replicability of place-based filmmaking as a participatory tool for global development 

Building an Idea Project Helper 07:11

Urban Dreams & Love Letters to Al Khalifa, Cairo with Megawra 2022-23

Award winning place-based urban/natural heritage filmmaking with young people in Historic Cairo 

Malek 05:44
City Dreams 05:57
The House 07:05
Human Life 07:22
Pigeon Coop 07:13
Through Our Eyes 05:27
Self Respect 05:22
Fry Day 05:44
The Chocolate 04:09
Tok Tok 05:42

Tourism, Activism and Social Housing 2011-21

Selected films taken from different projects on sex tourism, the role of activism in academia, and the impact of gentrification and the housing crisis on different communities in London

Postcolonial Encounters 02:23 (2011)
Doreen Massey
Reflections from a Paper Age 07:10 (2016)
Consequences 06:59 (2020)
Brixton/Brickstone 03:20 (2021)

Bedouin Borders 2018

A series of films about the Sinai Bedouin, made with local Bedouins – exploring fact, fiction and myth. Part of A Different Sense of Space: How Bedouins Mapped the Sinai

Guest Star 04:34
The Fisherman 03:29
Sheeza 08:06
Catherine Trailer 01:40
Origin Story 07:18
Nuweiba Nights 21:41
Bedouin Tea 05:18
Acacia 04:59
Dir Vitor Hugo Costa

Visualising the Past: Rebranding the Present 2008-10

A collection of films made in collaboration with local residents, based on interviews with tourists, local experts and government representatives exploring different perspectives on what constitutes a heritage city. Part of Rebranding the Levant: Contested Heritage and Colonial Modernities in Amman and Damascus

Amman 10:02
Mysteries of the Orient
09:04
Signs of The Time 02:20

 

Bitter Coffee 12:36