'HER Voice, Her LENS: Women, Visibility and the Moving Image'
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Main Building
- Room
- RG01
- Event type
- Film screening
About this event
Join us for a short film screening, curatorial presentation and a post-screening discussion of HER Voice, Her LENS: Women, Visibility and the Moving Image.
Who has the right to tell women’s stories? Who controls the gaze, and whose experiences are truly made visible?
HER Voice, Her LENS is a curated film screening event focusing on women filmmakers and their visual expression. Bringing together moving-image works by women from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds, the programme invites audiences to engage with a range of female experiences through short films, documentaries and experimental moving-image works. It explores how women tell their own stories, express their bodies and identities, and use cinema to examine the relationship between personal experience and wider social structures.
Guided by three interconnected themes – Becoming Visible, The Body Speaks, and Rewriting Structures – the programme presents diverse narrative perspectives and creative approaches, exploring women’s self-expression, visibility and cinematic authorship. Following the screening, Dr Xiaoning Lu of SOAS University of London will chair a post-screening discussion with the curator and invited filmmakers, exploring the creative approaches behind the works, the representation of women’s experiences on screen and related questions. Audience members will also have the opportunity to ask questions and share their perspectives.
Registration
This event is open to the public and free to attend; however, registration is required. This event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.
Organisers
The event is curated by Kuo Li (Lilibet) of MenLi House and presented in collaboration with the SOAS China Institute.
About the curator and speaker
Kuo Li (Lilibet) is a filmmaker, producer and curator with experience in film practice and cultural work across China and the UK. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, the London Film School and the University of Warwick, with academic backgrounds in film producing and directing.
Her work spans narrative films, documentaries and commercial productions, encompassing directing, screenwriting and production management. Projects she has contributed to have attracted attention from international film festivals, including Cannes, the Premiers Plans Film Festival, the Carthage Film Festival, Visions du Réel and the Beijing International Film Festival. She has also worked in film education, academic supervision and cultural programme curation.
Chair
Dr Xiaoning Lu is a Reader in Modern Chinese Culture and Language at SOAS University of London, where she also serves as Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Her research focuses on Chinese film history and visual culture. She has co-curated the Chinese Art Film London Showcase and has been invited as a guest at several international film festivals, including the Raindance Film Festival and the London Migration Film Festival.
'HER Voice, Her LENS' poster
Contact
Email: sci@soas.ac.uk
