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Welcome Week Screenings of Xiaolu Guo Films
25 September 2024鈥�27 September 2024, 6:30 pm鈥�8:30 pm
The UCL Urban Laboratory welcome students back with two screenings of films by novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo.
This event is free.
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UCL Urban Laboratory
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UCL East CinemaOne Pool StreetLondonE20 2AFUnited Kingdom
Welcome Week Screenings
To celebrate the new academic year, UCL Urban Laboratory,聽invite students and friends to screenings of two of Xiaolu Guo's films in one week. Xiaolu recently delivered the annual Cities Imaginaries lecture and we are delighted to share more of her work.聽
Our first screening will be "She, A Chinese" at One Pool Street Cinema on Wednesday 25 September, 18:30-20:00:
A homage to Godard鈥檚 1967鈥檚 La Chinoise, this is a portrait of a young woman on a journey of self-discovery in 14 chapters. Mei leaves her home village in southern China after refusing a marriage proposal, and heads to the big city. After a tragic encounter with a hit man she arrives in Britain. Her decisions about places and men are impulsive and infused by an instinct for freedom. Mei is an existential character born from a hybrid Chinese-European cinema.
Filmmaker and author Xiaolu Guo presents her 2013 documentary essay, Late at Night - Voices of Ordinary Madness, in partnership with UCL Urban Laboratory聽on Friday 27 September, 18:20-20:30.聽
Introduced by a Warhol-esque newsreader,聽Late at Night聽presents the voices of a number of Londoners 鈥� street gangsters, beggars, working class heroes, bankers and preachers 鈥� most of them excluded from the society and the area they live in, the newly gentrified London East End. Their anguished words build a network of responses to the hyper capitalist world we live in.
George Orwell wrote: 鈥淚f you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.鈥� Xiaolu Guo鈥檚 film essay focuses on Britain鈥檚 mean streets and its dwellers, each fighting their ground in their own way. The filmmaker uses quotes, archives and media materials to construct an image of contemporary Britain and leads us to question our future under the institutional madness of global capitalism.
Followed by a Q&A with director Xiaolu Guo and editor and sound designer Philippe Ciompi. Presented in partnership with UCL Urban Laboratory.聽
In Memory of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), author of Capitalist Realism
Follow the link below to book to attend. Tickets cost 拢9 per person (拢7 concession):聽
Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese British novelist, memoirist and filmmaker. Her novels include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, and I Am China. Her memoir Once Upon a Time In The East won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017 and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her recent novel, A Lover鈥檚 Discourse, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 and Radical is published by Chatto 2023. Named as a Granta鈥檚 Best of Young British Novelist in 2013, she has also directed a dozen films.聽聽
Her feature film She, a Chinese received the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Festival 2009. Her documentary We Went to Wonderland was in the Official Selection of ND/NF at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. She has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and Baruch College in New York. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her new book is My Battle of Hastings, published by Vintage 2024.聽
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