Dr Philippa Lovatt
Lecturer in Film Studies
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 7471
- pcl2@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Location
- 99 North Street
- Office hours
- On research leave
Biography
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 her first monograph Reverberant Histories: Expanded Listening in Art Cinema and Artists' Moving Image in Asia (under contract with Edinburgh University Press) and a second co-authored book project with Jasmine Nadua Trice entitled 'Parallel Practices' which is on arts organising in Southeast Asia, and 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.
In 2022 Philippa was co-curator and co-organiser of '(Im)material Worlds: tracing creative practice, histories and environmental contexts in artists' moving image from Southeast Asia and UK', a series of screenings and conversations in collaboration with Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, LUX Scotland and Cample Line Gallery. Between 2020-23, Philippa was also Co-Director for the Centre for Screen Cultures at University of St Andrews.
Philippa co-edited the Screen dossier: 'Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian film and artists' moving image' (Winter 2021) with Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn.
She also co-edited the dossier 'Theorizing Region: Film and Video Cultures in Southeast Asia' with Jasmine Nadua Trice in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Spring 2021.
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 Dumfrieshire.
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 and is a member of the MeCCSA Sound Studies Network.
She is also a member of the Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas and the Asian Cinema Lab (based in Singapore). Between 2016 and 2018, Philippa was PI on the AHRC funded research network, the Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network: Promoting Dialogue Across Critical and Creative Practice with co-Is Jasmine Nadua Trice (Associate Professor, UCLA), Gaik Cheng Khoo (Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus), and artist and filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi (Founder of Hanoi DocLab). As a development from the project, Philippa and Jasmine have begun work on an oral histories project about Film and Video organizing in Southeast Asia. You can listen to some of the inteviews carried out so far on their website: https://www.aseac-interviews.org/home.
Philippa is Film Programme Associate for CAMPLE LINE artists' film screenings in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and is also on the steering commitee of Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews.
Research areas
Artists’ moving image, sound, eco-cinema, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia.
PhD supervision
- Richard Bolisay
- Olivia Booker
- Ilinca Vanau
- Hal Young
Selected publications
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Open access
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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'Where Deep Time meets the Age of Capital: Le Giang’s Future Perfect', exhibition catalogue essay (in English and Vietnamese), Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art (VCCA), Vietnam.
Lovatt, P., 1 Jun 2022, Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art (VCCA), Vietnam., p. 70-78 8 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Open access
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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Ghost tapes: sonic affect and spirituality in Sung Tieu’s No Gods, No Masters
Lovatt, P., 5 Apr 2022, Climate, habitats, environments. Bauer, U. M. (ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 164-173Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian film and artists' moving image: introduction
Chulphongsathorn, G. & Lovatt, P., 7 Jan 2022, In: Screen. 62, 4, p. 533-540 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Open access
The acoustics of the archipelagic imagination in Southeast Asian artists' film: In Focus dossier
Lovatt, P., 10 May 2021, In: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 60, 3, p. 176-181 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Theorizing region: film and video cultures in Southeast Asia
Lovatt, P. & Nadua Trice, J., 10 May 2021, In: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 60, 3, p. 158-162 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Open access
Tracing ecological histories of the Mekong: an interview with Sutthirat Supaparinya
Lovatt, P., 1 Aug 2021, In: Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. 54, p. 133-149 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'Audiovisual Frictions: history, materiality and affect in found footage film from Asia' in Cheng Yia Yun, Cheong Kah Kit, Selene Yap and Tan Guo-Liang (eds), State of Motion: Rushes of Time (Singapore: Asian Film Archive)
Lovatt, P., 1 Dec 2020, State of Motion: Rushes of Time . Asian Film Archive, p. 155-159Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
(Im)material histories and aesthetics of extractivism in Vietnamese artists’ moving image
Lovatt, P., 24 Mar 2020, In: Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. 4, 1, p. 221-236 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review