Screening and panel discussion of My Body Feels with Me

When: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne Campus, Mile End

Speaker: Dr Gerard Ortin Castellvi, Dr Kiki Yu Tianqi, Dr Libby Saxton, and Srikrupa

Join us for a screening and discussion of the film My Body Feels with Me.

Created and written by BodyMind Collective: Dakeeni, Lama, Lavanaya, Mythili, Nagina and Srikrupa.

Film by Srikrupa Raghunathan.

Synopsis: Over two months in 2024, six women from Hyderabad, India, came together for a series of workshops to reflect on their childhood violence. My Body Feels with Me is an act of collective filmmaking that rejects trauma narratives rooted in pathology, victimhood, or damage, and instead asserts the body as a site of desire, protest and liberation. The film uses personal histories and memories to build a shared visual archive, opening space for new ways of imagining survival and liberation. Shot mostly on a mobile phone, My Body Feels with Me offers an intimate experience of feelings, sensations, and embodied knowledge, inviting viewers into a space of shared witnessing. The film asks what it means to live with trauma and pain, and how cinema can be a vehicle for the body's quiet forms of resistance.

Duration: 67 minutes

The film screening is organised by Centre for Film and Ethics, Queen Mary University of London. The film is followed by a conversation with Dr Gerard Ortin Castellvi, Dr Kiki Yu Tianqi, Dr Libby Saxton, and Srikrupa (and the members of the collective).