Lely Soy is a Kenyan artist, filmmaker  and actress whose creative practice explores the relationship between women and power. Working primarily through narrative cinema, she engages with themes of intimacy, isolation, and transformation—often through the lenses of drama, psychological thriller, and surrealism. Her films center desire, grief, and the blurred line between intimacy and distance, using meditative visual language to ground the surreal in realism. Whether working with narrative or experimental form, Soy draws from personal history and memory—most notably in a film constructed from digitized home videos that became a reflection on lineage and the quiet act of witnessing one’s own evolution. In a recent project, she extended the cinematic experience into the physical realm through an installation of hanging feathers, a delicate and slightly eerie element that added to the film’s mood of unease and mystery. Her latest work reflects on a woman’s absence of power and the psychological weight of loneliness, also marked her debut as an actress. Visualising isolation as ghost-like beings that quietly surround the protagonist, the film makes the intangible experience of solitude painfully visible.Across her body of work, Soy remains interested in the subtle, often invisible forces that shape how women move through the world.