Join us for an evening with documentary filmmakers Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa, who will be talking to us about their project H24, a series they commissioned and directed for Arte TV.

H24 is a series of short original interventions on sexual and gendered harassment that constitute '24 hours' in women’s and gender non-conforming life. The series had a huge impact in France, and our speakers will talk to us about the process of making the series, raise issues about navigating the TV and film industry and discuss the impact of H24. There will be a screening of several of the interventions, a brief interview with the chair, and an open Q&A. 

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Meet our speakers and chair

Prof Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics, where she has worked since 1999. Her main interests are histories of queer feminist theories and the development of alternative stories and methods (with a particular focus on archives). She’s the author of Bisexual Spaces (2002), Why Stories Matter (2011) and Considering Emma Goldman (2018), and editor of nine edited volumes and special issues on these themes. Her current project is Feminist Knowledge Struggles: Telling Stories Differently, which develops original queer feminist methodologies to challenge the amenability of gendered and sexual discourses to the Right.

Since 2013, Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa have collaborated on several documentaries, films and web series, focusing on the role of artists in our contemporary world and sensitive issues as sex and gender. In 2018, they received the 'Étoile de la Scam' for their film Focus Iran co-produced with ARTE. Their work also includes the documentary The Sea Wall: Marguerite Duras and the Colonial Illusion, produced by Les Batelières Productions for ARTE, as well as the powerful manifesto series H24 which denounces violence against women. The series has been seen by more than 15 million people. Most recently, they were honored with the Best Documentary award at the Los Angeles French Film Festival for Alice Guy: The First Female Filmmaker. In 2022, they shot a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex with Judith Butler, Silvia Federici, Laure Murat, Kellie Carter Jackson and Caitlin Keliiaa. Looking for Simone had its world premiere at DocFest in New York in November 2024 and will be broadcast by ARTE in March 2025. They are currently writing the screenplay for a graphic novel that will be published by Gallimard Editions at the end of 2025.