Spanning the pre-internet works of Shigeko Kubota, Ilene Segalove and Ximena Cuevas, through to the contemporary autoethnography of Martine Syms and Onyeke Igwe, this programme looks to diaristic articulations of self and the literal form of women ‘talking aloud’.

The radical interiority of these works probe a middle ground between its filmmakers’ identities and heritages and the pervasive influence of hegemonic pop culture - from the solace of go-go dancers on Japanese TV in Kubota’s lament for her dying father, to Julia Mellen’s playful imaginings of a date with Yung Lean.

This programme looks to the historically ‘feminised’ connotations of diary-keeping as a mode of self-expression, and the agency and performativity that arise in the act of self-documentation. Guest programmed by Jenna Roberts and Miranda Mungai. 87’

This is part of Public Intimacies, a strand of communually programmed films and illustrated lectures looking to the agency of women’s voices when in dialogue with themselves, and the potential for self-recognition through self-documentation.