Artists’ moving image, sound, eco-cinema, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia. 

Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on artists’ moving image, sound, ecocriticism, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia and she is currently working on two books: a co-authored book project with Jasmine Nadua Trice entitled Parallel Practices which is on film organising in Southeast Asia (with case studies on Forum Lenteng, Los Otros, Hanoi DocLab, Eyedropper Fill and Anti-Archive), that was developed as an extension of SEACRN. Drawing from interviews with film practitioners and analysis of film texts, we are focusing on groups that have evolved aesthetic, curatorial, and pedagogical film practices through critical engagements with recent spatial transformations such as urban development, migration, and ecological crisis. Philippa is also writing a monograph on sound in artists’ film: Reverberant Histories: Expanded Listening in Artists’ Film in Asia. Philippa has previously published her research in Screen; Sound, Music and the Moving Image; The New Soundtrack, SoundEffects, Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia and Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. She has also written for various film programmes and curatorial projects including with the Asian Film Archive in Singapore, The Factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and CAMPLE LINE in Dumfriesshire. Philippa is on the editorial board of the journal Sound, Music and the Moving Image, was previously on the editorial board of The New Soundtrack. She is also a member of the Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas and is a Film Programme Associate for CAMPLE LINE artists' film screenings in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.