Jessi Gutch

Writer / Director
  • My Cells are Trying to Kill Me
    My Cells are Trying to Kill Me (2025) Writer / Director

    A transcendental story between two young woman and their complicated relationship with Death, as they refuse to fall into a narrative of battling their cancer. Instead they fall newly in love with life, exploring how to embrace mortality during a historical moment of mass extinction.

  • Border Town
    Border Town (2024) Writer / Director

    After moving to a Brexit voting frontier town on the border of England, where small boats of refugees arrive from France every day, a filmmaker tries to cross over societal divides and understand British identity in this moment of change and crisis.

  • Pyramid of Disunion
    Pyramid of Disunion (2023) Director

    On a quest for inner peace and a more meaningful existence, wheelchair-user Angel joins an eco-commune. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she encounters an old flame.

  • Blind as a Beat
    Blind as a Beat (2021) Producer | Writer / Director

    Through a series of intimate and impressionistic memories, a filmmaker grapples with losing her sight. But the power of listening offers her a portal to a new world.

  • Home
    Home (2022) Producer

    How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn't straightforward.

  • Until The Tide Creeps In
    Until The Tide Creeps In (2022) Writer / Director

    A group of islanders gather evidence of corporate manslaughter for the disaster they fear is inevitable. History repeats itself in this hybrid documentary; to imagine the future disaster potentially set to befall England’s east coast - again.

  • Call Us CRIPtic
    Call Us CRIPtic (2021) Director | Producer

    A short Arts Council funded documentary about the disabled artist collective, CRIPtic, and their annual showcase of emerging talent.

  • The Forgotten C
    The Forgotten C (2020) Producer | Screenwriter

    The pandemic crawls on and Aisha shelters in her flat. Doorstep visits from friends and family mark the passing weeks as Aisha struggles with how to tell them what's happening to her.

  • Octopus
    Octopus (2021) Producer

    Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young queer woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.