Lu Zeng

Biography

Lu Zeng is a PhD Candidate at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Her dissertation is titled 'Place as Method: Film Theory through Rhythmanalysis'. Using Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis as a tentative tool, she studies ways in which the concept of place contributes to film theory and philosophy, such as in theories of cinematic temporality, the real, subjectivity, and medium specificity. In addition to film research, Lu has short-term experiences in film sales, distribution, festival marketing, and curation. Most recently, she worked for the 7th Ramsgate International Film & Television Festival and the 66th BFI London Film Festival.

Publications:
- 'Linguistic Imperialism in Film and Television: A Study of Linguistic Replacement of the English Language.' Peace, Land, and Bread 5 (April 2025): 145-156. https://www.iskrabooks.org/plb5


- ‘Eternity Descending into Time: Badiou and the Cinematic Temporality of Love’. Film-Philosophy 29, no. 1 (February 2025): 221–43. https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2025.0299


- 'My Memory is an Elevator.' Hampstead Literary Society Journal, no. 4 (November 2024): 10.
- 'Cars, Careers, and Care: Automobility and Women's Dilemmas in Chinese Urban TV Dramas.' Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 8, no. 3 (September 2023). https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/09/cars-careers-and-care/

Conference Presentations:
- 'The Narrated House: Place and Intermedial Storytelling in Ozon's Dans la Maison (2012)', Reconfigurations: 20th- and 21st- Century Literature and the Arts, Nanyang Technological University, October 3-5, 2025.
- 'Topological Mediations: Cinematic Place as the Void of Badiouian Truth', Film-Philosophy 2025, University of Malta, June 23-25, 2025.
- 'Where Palestine and Taipei Meet: Parisian Parks According to Elia Suleiman and Tsai Ming-Liang', The 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, The University of Hong Kong, May 22-24, 2025.
- 'What Urban Parks Tell Us about Film Theory', Film-Philosophy 2023, Chapman University, June 13-15, 2023.
- 'The Place and Placelessness of the BFI London Film Festival', Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places, King's College London, June 19-21, 2023.