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Speaking Aloud / Conversation’s Over: Feminist Self-Portraits and Autobiographical Experiments

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India Mujer De Milfuegos

Two newly digitised works exploring feminist self-representation through autobiography, revealing gaps and parallel realities within London.

The programme begins with two works from the London Community Video Archive (LCVA): Conversation’s Over: Liz & Pauline (c 1980) by the Basement Project and Terry Flaxton’s Circumstantial Evidence (1983). These films are shown alongside moving-image works by Anne Charlotte Robinson, Chick Strand, CAMP and Yace Sula to question how history and autobiography intersect.

The self-portrait film does not speak with a single voice but with many, through fictions, overlapping viewpoints, and dialogue. Conversation becomes a way of voicing one’s reality to both oneself and others, while diary-style storytelling blends autobiography and fiction to open up new possibilities for authorship. 

These films are as much about introspection as they are about exchange, creating a space where the wish to be seen meets the urge to see and record others.

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Programme

Films Conversation’s Over/Liz & Pauline, dir Basement Project (LCVA), 1980, 21’, UK (captioned) 

Circumstantial Evidence, dir Terry Flaxton (LCVA), 1983, 21’, UK 

Excerpts from Khirkeeyan: Village Girls, dir CAMP, 2006, 9’ 

India Mujer De Milfuegos, dir Chick Strand, 1976, 15’, USA/Mexico

16mm Five Year Diary: Reel 22/23 (TBC), dir Anne Charlotte Robinson, 27’, USA 

As Told by a Corpse (TBC), dir Yace Sula, 2025, 6’, USA

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