Let's Get Married!

In contemporary East Asian contexts, romantic imagery and scripted love stories often sit alongside social pressures around marriage and reproduction. For many women, romance and marriage can feel closely tied to broader familial, economic, and demographic expectations rather than personal choice. This begs the question: what happens when closeness is shaped by social expectation, and intimacy is measured through reproduction? What becomes of those who step outside these demands? This programme emerges from that tension, reimagining marriage as a site of refusal, rebellion, and transformation.

Curated by Sun Kim & Vivi Zhu

My Heart, (On)Unlock Two women bring a Chinese Otome game’s romantic script into the real world, where it begins to unravel. dir. Vivi Zhu | China | 2025 | 16 min

The Reproducing Garden Artists create a garden, rather than a conventional home, as a space of belonging for queer people in Japan. dir. Marina Lisa Komiya\, Chihiro Suzuki| Japan | 2021 | 60 min

Will You Marry Me? A woman publicly searches for a Taiwanese husband, exposing how marriage becomes a condition for belonging. dir. S Gao | China | 2025 | 15 min

Virgin Road A creature halfway between human and monster splits its body in half and marries itself. dir. Hansol Ryu| South Korea | 2021 | 10 min

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This is a pay-what-you-can event between £3.50 and £10.50. We suggest £7 as a general admission, but feel free to pay less (or more!) based on your circumstances.