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Research overview
Artists’ moving image, sound, environmental humanities, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia.
Research overview
Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Senior 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 titled Practices of Futurity: Urban Worldmaking and Southeast Asian Film Collectives (with chapters on Forum Lenteng, Los Otros, Hanoi DocLab, and Anti-Archive) that was developed as an extension of SEACRN. Drawing from interviews with film practitioners and analysis of film texts, the book focuses on collectives 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. She 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 and has also written for various film programmes, galleries and curatorial projects including with the Asian Film Archive in Singapore, The Factory in Ho Chi Minh City, VER Gallery in Bangkok, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and CAMPLE LINE in Dumfriesshire. Philippa is part of the editorial collective for the open access journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia and is on the editorial board of the journal Sound, Music and the Moving Image. She has been a board member of the Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas since 2014.
Profile Keywords
Artists’ moving image, sound, environmental humanities, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
External Examiner, University of Manchester
1 Sept 2016 → 31 Aug 2021
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Collapsing Clouds Form Stars: a continuum of resistance in the video works of Som Supaparinya - commissioned essay for Gallery VER (in English and Thai)
Lovatt, P., 1 Feb 2025, Gallery VER, Bangkok.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Oscillations across time and space: archeoacoustics and the sonic imagination of Hannan Jones’ A Frontier in Depth (2025) (in English and Welsh)
Lovatt, P., 12 Apr 2025, commissioned liner notes for the vinyl release of A Frontier in Depth - a multimedia installation made as part of the Perspective(s) programme, a collaboration between Artes Mundi and the National Roman Legion Museum in Caerleon in Wales .Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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The vernacular sonorities of the memory film in Southeast Asia
Lovatt, P., 15 Jul 2024, The Routledge companion to Asian cinemas. Zhang, Z., Mukherjee, D., Paramaditha, I. & Lee, S. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 323-334 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Reflections on โลก(ไร้)รูป (Im)material worlds: tracing creative practice, histories and environmental contexts in artists’ moving image from Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom
Anderson, K., Chulphongsathorn, G., Dove, E., Fiske, T., Lovatt, P. & Upton, D., 21 Apr 2023, In: The Moving Image Review & Art Journal. 11, 2, p. 250-267 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Foraging in the ruins: Nguyễn Trinh Thi’s mycological moving-image practice
Lovatt, P., 7 Jan 2022, In: Screen. 62, 4, p. 559-567 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Water Bodies: Coastal Expression in Ecocinema Practice (thesis data)
Booker, O. (Creator), Lovatt, P. (Supervisor), Neely, S. (Supervisor), Strickland, T. (Contributor), Blumenthaler, F. (Contributor) & Galloway, T. (Contributor), University of St Andrews, 17 Feb 2030
DOI: 10.17630/f8e24bdb-594d-42d2-aead-e38c19a769f1
Dataset: Thesis dataset
Projects
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Safeguarding and managing audio-visual: Safeguarding and managing audio-visual heritage in Myanmar a time of environmental crisis
Lovatt, P. (PI)
1/02/24 → 31/01/25
Project: Standard
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Carnegie Research Incentive - P Lovatt: Carnegie Research Incentive - P Lovatt
Lovatt, P. (PI)
15/06/22 → 30/09/23
Project: Standard
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Acoustics of Archipelagic Imagination: Acoustics of the Archipelagic Imagination in Southeast Asian Artists' Film
Lovatt, P. (PI)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
31/05/21 → 30/11/21
Project: Standard
Activities
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ONWARD! | Flaherty Film Seminar Gatherings
Lovatt, P. (Organiser)
1 Oct 2025 → 6 Dec 2025Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia (Journal)
Lovatt, P. (Member of editorial board)
15 Aug 2025 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
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Practices of Futurity: Spatial Transformation and Southeast Asian Film Collectives
Lovatt, P. (Keynote/Plenary speaker)
14 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The Rivers We Don't See
Lovatt, P. (Invited speaker)
10 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Invited speaker at St Andrews Green Film Festival
Lovatt, P. (Invited speaker)
15 Feb 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk