Emonda and I, 2025, 3 min video

As part of my current Phd work was created: Emonda and I, a short ethnographic film that explores alternative ways of experiencing time in adult life. It follows a childfree woman who, through endurance cycling, discovers her own “biological” clock. It works as part of a video method for my Phd.

Research on women and cycling often portrays a narrow figure of women cyclists—risk-averse and constrained by caregiving responsibilities. Following Irigaray’s call to speak as women rather than of women, this research seeks to broaden the imagination of what counts as a woman cyclist—and as a woman more generally.

I am developing a research method that is collaborative and crafty where the participant and I stitch together scenes that we filmed collaboratively in order to delve into nuanced understandings of gender, chrononormativity, relationality, and embodiment. This approach follows Deleuzian cinema theory, which insists on emergence through montage as a quality in itself: a film is not a succession of still photographs, but rather the juxtaposition of scenes that creates affective intensities worthy of analysis. The process is also grounded in care and trust, anchoring the legitimacy of the researcher within a risky and fleeting scenario.

✨ A 30-minute film, My Bike, My Baby, is currently in progress. Notably, although the film emerges from an academic context, it is intentionally witty, fast-paced, and openly dramatic. It prioritises emotion and connection over abstraction in order to provoke emotional experience and open academic conversations to a much wider audience.