Selected Presentations
talks, lectures, presentations
Meshes for Maps: Topologies of Southeast Asian Cinema
Dec 2022
33rd SGIFF Youth Critics Program
Artist Moving Images & Resistance during the Duterte Administration
June 2022
24th Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Biennial Conference
Audiovisual Culture, Human Rights, and Activist Documentary Practice Under Duterte
June 2022
2022 SEASIA Biennial Conference, BRIN, Jakarta
Truth-Telling and Activist Filmmaking amid the Illiberal Information Disorder (Keynote Lecture)
June 2022
International Southeast Asian Media Studies Conference
Collective action, individual decisions:
political documentaries and activist media collectives (panel)
May 2022
2022 Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Philippine Documentary: A view from the post-COVID information disorder
Mar 2022
2022 Society for Cinema and Media Society (SCMS) Conference
Documentary Practice & Activism during the Pandemic Lockdown in the Philippines
Dec 2021
9th International Conference on Southeast Asia, Universiti Malaya
Who Owns Your IG Post? Media Literacy Today
July 2021
Meridian International Learning Experience
Categories for a Topology of Southeast Asian Cinema
July 2021
Singapore Management University (Online)
The Figure of Home and the Negative Island in A House In Pieces
May 2021
Panel Discussion & Screening, Stories Beyond and Mindanews (Online)
Pop Culture and the Project of Decolonization
May 2021
University of San Carlos (Online)
From National Cinema to Film Islands
Feb 2021
International Southeast Asian Media Studies Conference (Online)
Rethinking Southeast Asian Cinema Studies
Oct 2020
Panel Discussion, Film Department, BINUS University (Online)
Philippine Cinema, A Century Hence
Nov 2019
Sine Cinema das Filipinas: Nos Cem Anos do Cinema Filipino Film Festival, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon
Mapping Mindanao Cinema
July 2019
Annual Philippine Studies Conference, SOAS, University of London
Regions Decentering National Cinema
May 2019
Interseksiyon: Panitikan, Pelikula, at Wikang Filipino, UPFI Film Center
Alternative Beginnings and Contested Futures:
Tracing Rizal in Early Cinema
July 2018
Bridging Worlds, Illumining the Archive: An International Conference in Honor of Professor Resil B. Mojares, Quezon City
Southeast Asian Regional Cinemas as ‘Independent’ Cinema
Dec 2017
SEASIA 2017: Transgressive Southeast Asia, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Revisiting Lino Brocka and Jose Lacaba’s Orapronobis in Dark Times
Nov 2017
5th Memory International Film Heritage Festival, Yangon
Considering Alternative Beginnings and Different Futures:
Rizal and the End of National Cinema
Sept 2017
SANDAAN Philippine Cinema Centennial Conference, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Manila
Rizal and the Genesis of Filipino Film
July 2017
Lopez Museum and Library, Ortigas
A Genealogy of Philippine Film Realism
July 2016
9th Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, University of Nottingham-Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Locating Mike de Leon in Philippine Cinema
July 2016
10th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Silliman University, Dumaguete
Rural Landscape and the Formation of Philippine Cinema
Dec 2015
Situations International Conference: Ethnic Minorities and Diasporas in the Asian Context, Yonsei University, Seoul
Reorienting the Real, Introducing the Horror:
The Invention of New Lao Cinema
Nov 2015
Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program (SEASREP), University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
Pinoy Telenovelas and Korean Historical Films
Oct 2015
Korean Cultural Festival, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan
Variations on a Theme: Philippine and South Korean Extreme
May 2015
Cultural Encounters: Asian Perspectives on Film, Literature and Society, a joint conference organized by University of Nottingham Malaysia and Yonsei University, Kuala Lumpur
The End of National Cinema:
Reflections on Philippine Cinema at the Turn of the Century
Feb 2015
3rd PASALE: Bicol Film Festival, Ateneo de Naga University
Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History
July 2014
8th Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Thai Film Archive, Salaya
Anxieties in Philippine Transnational Cinema
Mar 2014
Philippine Studies Conference in Japan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Brown-Skinned Virgin in Red Cheongsam:
The Ghost as a Figure of Justice in Southeast Asian Cinema
Oct 2013
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia (DORISEA) Workshop, Vietnamese Institute of Culture and Arts, Hanoi
The Politics of Naming a Movement:
Independent Cinema According to Cinemalaya
July 2013
7th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) Conference, University of Lisbon
The Face of Rizal as Medium:
Reflections on Nation, Religion, and the Documentary Image
June 2013
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia (DORISEA) Mid-term Conference, University of Göttingen
Narrativizing the Archive: Three Case Studies from Southeast Asia:
The Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia
June 2012
7th Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, National Museum of Singapore
Manila by Night as Thirdspace
Mar 2012
2012 Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong
Making Heroism Unlikely:
On the Metafilm and Violence in Indie Cinema
July 2010
Cinemalaya Congress, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
Literature Thru Film, Film Thru Literature:
Adaptation Criticism as Metacriticism
Mar 2009
UP College of Mass Communication Faculty Colloquium, University of the Philippines Diliman
Ang Tanawin at Paysaheng Rural sa Bagong Sineng Indie
Nov 2008
Ika-33 Kumperensiya ng Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao (UGAT), Holy Angel University, Angeles City