Curator, silent film
Bryony has researched and written on many aspects of early and silent film and co-directs the annual British Silent Film Festival, as well as programming for a variety of film festivals and events worldwide.
She is the author of The Story of Victorian Films (BFI Bloomsbury, 2023), 100 Silent Films (BFI Screen Guides, 2011) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on silent cinema and archiving. She authored the Primal Screen column in Sight and Sound from 2012 to 2021. She has been lead curator on many BFI National Archive film restorations, including Underground (1928), Shooting Stars (1927), The First Born (1928), Wonderful London (1924), The Great White Silence (1924), all nine surviving silent Hitchcock films and most recently the Victorian large format Biograph films.