John Hulsey is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher. His first film, This Side of History, premiered at Cinéma du Réel in 2019 where it received the Prix International de la Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia. His work has been screened and exhibited internationally in venues such as the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennial, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, and in publications such as The New York Times, Cinéma, and Creative Time Reports. He received an MFA from the University of California Los Angeles, a maîtrise in cinema from the University of Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle, and is an affiliate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center at Harvard University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College.