Dr Philippa Lovatt

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer (Education and Research Focused)

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 7471

Email

pcl2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

99 North Street

Office hours

By appointment only

 

Research areas

Artists’ moving image, sound, environmental humanities, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia. 

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 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, 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.

PhD supervision

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

Selected publications

• 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

• 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

• 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

  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

  '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

  The acoustics of the archipelagic imagination in Southeast Asian artists' film

  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

 

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