Dr Philippa Lovatt

Director of Teaching

Lecturer in Film Studies

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 7471

Email

pcl2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

99 North Street

Office hours

Wednesday 10am-noon

 

Research areas

 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 titled Practices of Futurity: Spatial Transformation in Southeast Asian Film Cultures (with case studies 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, 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.

PhD supervision

• Hal Young
• Yuanxin Chu
• Ilinca Vanau
• Richard Bolisay
• Rachel Ng

Selected publications

• 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

• 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

• Open access

  '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

• 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

• 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. 164-173

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• '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. 155-159

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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