Devika Girish

New York City-based film critic and curator. She holds a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and an M.A. in Specialized Arts Journalism from the University of Southern California, where she was an Annenberg Fellow. An alumna of the Berlinale Talent Press, the New York Film Festival Critics’ Academy, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics’ Institute, she is currently the Editor of Film Comment Magazine and the Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival. She programmed the series ‘Labor and Love: 8 Documentaries by Deepa Dhanraj’, which has been streaming since April 2023 on the Criterion Channel. Other curatorial ventures include events at the Maysles Documentary Center or the Lincoln Center. Additionally, she has done editorial work for journals like Field Notes or Non-Fiction. A regular contributor to The New York Times, she has published in the Village Voice, The Nation, Reverse Shot, Sight & Sound, the Criterion Collection, the British Film Institute, Cultured Magazine, CinemaScope, and The New York Review of Books. She has served on the selection committees for the Mumbai Film Festival and the Berlin Critics’ Week. The recipient of a 2018 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for her audio story, ’Demistifying Bollywood’, among other honours, her work as a writer and curator explores the entanglements of moving-image culture with race, labor, colonialism, and power. Published works by Devika Girish include her contribution to Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (MIT Press) and essays, articles, and interviews on Terence Davies, Cheryl Dunye, Joanna Hogg, Haile Gerima, Satyajit Ray, Deepa Dhanraj, Greta Gerwig, or Abbas Kiarostami, to name but a few.