Zhou Guo

Profile

Project Title: Weaving Cosmos: Women's Essayistic Filmmaking in Contemporary China.

Supervisors: Dr Kiki Tianqi Yu and Dr Rachel Randall

Previous qualifications:

MRes, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London

MFA, School of Arts, Peking University

BA, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Research

Research Interests:

Essayistic film,

Amateur filmmaking,

Family archives,

Affective labour,

Embodied ethnography,

Motherhood in contemporary China.

Public Engagement

Before beginning my PhD journey, I worked as a non-fiction and experimental filmmaker and spent several years working with film media and film festivals in China.