Thursday, March 10th, 2022 Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian Film and Artists’ Moving Image

DateTimeLocation
Thursday, March 10, 20229:00AM - 10:30AMOnline Event, Online Event

Series

Theory/Praxis/Politics

Description

The series, Theory/Praxis/Politics aims to advocate for and bring together perspectives of academics, filmmakers, programmers, civil servants, and other stakeholders with an interest in the question of filmmaking, practices of art and moving images of Asia and its diasporas.

For this webinar, we are pleased to present co-editors and contributors of the recently published dossier in the journal, Screen, whose articles appear in the special issue entitled, “Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian Film and Artists’ Moving Image.”

The dossier is co-edited by Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn and Philippa Lovatt includes the following articles:

Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, “Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s planetary cinema”
May Adadol Ingawanij, “Cinematic animism and contemporary Southeast Asian artists’ moving-image practices”
Philippa Lovatt, “Foraging in the ruins: Nguyễn Trinh Thi’s mycological moving-image practice”
Kiu-Wai Chu, “Screening vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Island of The Hungry Ghosts and the eco-ethics of refugee cinema”

Learn more about the dosser at: https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/62/4/533/6500328

Contact

Dasha Kuznetsova (asian.institute@utoronto.ca)

Speakers

May Adadol Ingawanij
Panelist
Professor of Cinematic Arts and Co-Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster

Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn
Panelist
Film producer and Lecturer in the Department of Motion Pictures and Still Photography, the Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Philippa Lovatt
Panelist
Lecturer in Film Studies and Co-Director for the Centre for Screen Cultures, University of St. Andrews

Kiu-wai Chu
Panelist
Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Elizabeth Wijaya
Moderator
Assistant Professor, Visual Studies and Cinema Studies Institute; Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute, Munk School, University of Toronto

Palita Chunsaengchan
Moderator
Assistant Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota

Main Sponsor

Asian Institute

Sponsors

Centre for Southeast Asian Studies

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota

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