Chuiwen (Wen) Kong is a second-year MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia. She holds an MA in Film Studies and a BA in Education Studies from University College London, UK. She has presented her video essay entitled “Faces Unveiled” at the 2024 Film Philosophy Conference. She has recently presented “The Minor Gest(ure), Cinema’s Intertextual Dives” at the 2025 SCMS (Society for Cinema & Media Studies) conference, and her video essay “The Unbearable Light(ness) of Palestine” at the 2025 ACSS conference.