Background:

I hold a First Class BA in Film and Literature, and an MA for Research in Film & Television Studies, both from the University of Warwick. My MA dissertation was titled Weathering the Storm: Representing Climate Trauma in Philippine Film After Super Typhoon Yolanda, which explored how Philippine film and installation art negotiated the seeming unrepresentability of ecological grief in the wake of one of the deadliest tropical cyclones ever recorded. This project began my interest in cinema concerning the climate crisis, and how cinema can act as a tool for displaying the inequities that come from climate inaction, particularly in communities in the Global South.

Current Research

My PhD research is concerned with how cinematic time, and its manipulation in film, magnifies the inequities of the climate crisis in countries of the Global South that are the most strongly affected by anthropogenic global warming. My thesis will posit a multi-dimensional approach to cinematic time, understanding it as both a phenomenological constant inherent to human experience, but also as a sociologically constructed phenomenon that can act as a discursive framework through which we can analyse the distribution of power and justice across the ‘North/South divide’.

Drawing explicitly on decolonial and ecological theory, and case studies ranging from climate migrants working on cargo ships, to the consequences of dictatorship and occupation in Philippine and Palestinian cinema, my research ultimately aims to provide a theory of durational aesthetics that accounts for the differing experiences of time for those constantly living on the border between survival and death.

My research is supervised by Dr Tiago de Luca.

Research Interests

Cinematic time; the Anthropocene; slow cinema and extreme duration cinema; Philippine cinema; world cinema; ecocinema and environmental philosophy; cinema and labour; de/post-colonial theory; waste and toxicity; globalisation

Conference Papers

• ‘Speculated Histories/Liberated Futures: Labouring Towards a Philippine Autohistory in the Cinema of Raya Martin’, BAFTSS Conference 2024, University of Sussex (3rd-5th April)

Memberships

• BAFTSS: British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies