Dr Philippa Lovatt

Dr Philippa Lovatt

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 7471
Email
pcl2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location
99 North Street
Office hours
By appointment only

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Research areas

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

Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. 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 ofÌý. Drawing fromÌýÌýwith 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 inÌýScreen;ÌýSound, Music and the Moving Image;ÌýThe New Soundtrack, SoundEffects,ÌýSoutheast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in AsiaÌýand 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

  • RichardÌýBolisay
  • YuanxinÌýChu
  • HazelÌýMcLean
  • RachelÌýNg
  • IlincaÌýVanau
  • HalÌýYoung

Selected publications

  • Lovatt, P., 1 Feb 2025, Bangkok : Gallery VER.

    Research output: Other contribution

  • Lovatt, P., 12 Apr 2025, Artes Mundi.

    Research output: Other contribution

  • 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
    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
    Lovatt, P., 7 Jan 2022, In: Screen. 62, 4, p. 559-567 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • 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
    Chulphongsathorn, G. & Lovatt, P., 7 Jan 2022, In: Screen. 62, 4, p. 533-540 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  • 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
    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

  • 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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