Patrick F. Campos
film scholar, programmer, critic
An associate professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, his research investigates the intertwining of politics and aesthetics and engages with notions of national and regional cinema in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Educated at the University of the Philippines Diliman (BA Film, MA Comparative Literature) and the University of Westminster (PhD Film), he is the author of The End of National Cinema (2016), editor of Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image, programmer of Tingin Southeast Asian Film Festival, and co-organizer of the itinerant biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference. He has programmed, curated, juried, or served on the selection committee for Singapore, Kolkata, Guanajuato, Madani, QCinema International Film Festivals, Jogja Asian Film Festival, Jakarta Film Week, Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinema One Originals, Image Forum Tokyo, Minikino Bali, Asian Film Archive, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila, SeaShorts Kuala Lumpur, Cinema Rehiyon, the revitalized FAMAS, and Gawad Urian, among others. He is a member of NETPAC and FIPRESCI and, in the Philippines, is an advocate of media literacy education.
Selected Programs & Projects
Selected Publications
Editor in Chief, 2019—
"Diaries and Dreams – On Films of Resistance from Myanmar."
Asian Movie Plus, 2024
"A jury member looks back at how KIFF 2023 imagined cinematic regions."
The Telegraph India, 2024
"QCinema International Film Festival."
NETPAC, 2023
"Celebrating Muslim Diversity at Madani Film Festival."
Tempo Jakarta, 2023
“We Deserve That, Too: An Interview with Samantha Lee.”
Pelikula 8, 2023
“Film as an Invitation to Participate in Our History.”
Foreword to Nick Deocampo, Philippine Cinema and History, ADMU Press, 2023
Mike De Leon's Last Look Back
Editor, Contra Mundum, 2022
萬計死亡疫情下的紀錄片：一份來自菲律賓的快報 [Documentary in the Time of a Thousand Deaths: A Despatch from the Philippines]
Editor & Co-Author, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2021
Scenes Reclaimed: CCP 50 x Cinemalaya 15
trans. ZHONG Ruohan. Necessary Fictions: Negotiating Realities in Post-national Philippine Documentaries. 13th Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2022
"A Compassionate Lucidity: Recent Political Works by Filipino Students."
Pelikula 7, 2022
“Topos, Historia, Islas: Film Islands and Regional Cinemas.”
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60.3, 2021
“That Should Be The Status Quo: An Interview with Antoinette Jadaone.”
Pelikula 6, 2021
“Huwebes, Huwebes“Huwebes, Huwebes---Rooted, Omnibus, Expansive,” Rooted, Omnibus, Expansive.”
Sinekultura 16, 2021
"The Figure of Home and The Negative Island in A House in Pieces."
Mindanews, 2021
“Allegories of Scale: On Three Films Set in Mindanao."
Asian Film Archive Monographs, 2021
Editor in Chief, 2017—2020
“Documentary in the Time of a Thousand Deaths: A Despatch from the Philippines."
Moving Image Review & Art Journal 9.2, 2020
“On Making Romance Movies: An Interview with Irene Emma Villamor.”
Pelikula 5, 2020
“Thinking About Philippine Political Documentaries Today.”
Daang Dokyu: A Festival of Philippine Documentaries, FilDocs, Inc., 2020
"Locating Mike De Leon in Philippine Cinema."
Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis, eds. Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, and Mary Jane Ainslie, Amsterdam University Press, 2020
“How Should I Watch Today? Reflections on Film Programming and Pedagogy.”
Southeast of Now 4.1, 2020
Art Archive 02, The Japan Foundation Manila, 2019
Section Editor, The Japan Foundation Manila, 2019
“On Building the Mindanao Film Archive.”
Pelikula 4, 2019
Situations 12.2, 2019
Issue Editor, The Politics of Religion in Southeast Asian Cinemas, 2019
“Kidlat Tahimik: Independent, International, and Indigenous Filmmaker.”
Sanghaya 2019: Philippine Culture & Art Yearbook, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2019
Open Issue
Issue Editor, Plaridel 16.1, 2019
“One Hundred Years of Philippine Cinema: The 1990s to the Present.”
Agung 21.3, 2018
电影运动之命名论*——依照菲律宾Cinemalaya电影大会所定义的独立电影2005—2010 [The Politics of Naming a Movement: Independent Cinema According to the Cinemalaya Congress (2005-2010)]
trans. Ma Wentao. 当代电影 Contemporary Film 7, 2018
[66 encyclopedia entries]
Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Film, Broadcast Arts, and Literature volumes.
“A Portrait of Kidlat Tahimik, Godfather of Filipino Indie Cinema.”
Direk: Essays on Filipino Directors, eds. Clodualdo del Mundo Jr. and Shirley O. Lua, Sussex Academic Press, 2018
Artists and Intellectuals and Their Public Spheres
Issue Editor, Plaridel 14.2, 2017
"Nick Deocampo's Eiga: Cinema in the Philippines During World War II (2016).”
Social Science Diliman 13.1, 2017
“Binisaya, A New Generation of Cebuano Filmmakers: An Interview with Keith Deligero and Ara Chawdhury.”
Plaridel 14.1, 2016
Korea Crossing Cultures
Issue Editor, Plaridel 14.1, 2017
The End of National Cinema
Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century
University of the Philippines Press, 2016
“The Emergence of a New Lao Cinema: An Interview with Anysay Keola and Xaisongkham Induangchanthy.”
Plaridel 13.2, 2016
Open Issue
Issue Editor, Plaridel 13.2, 2016
Intellectuals, Public Space, and The Nation
Issue Editor, Plaridel 13.1, 2016
"Jonathan Corpus Ong's The Poverty of Television: The Media of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines (2016)."
Philippine Studies 64.2, 2016
"Framing Rural Landscape in Philippine Cinema."
Situations 9.1, 2016
“The Invention of Lao Horror: Interview with Mattie Do.”
Plaridel 12.2, 2015
Locating Southeast Asian Horror,
Issue Co-Editor, Plaridel 12.2, 2015
Politics in Mainstream, Underground, and New Media
Issue Editor, Plaridel 12.1, 2015
"Kidlat Tahimik & the Determination of Native Filmmaker."
Kritika Kultura 25, 2015
"Ghostly Allegories: Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History."
Kritika Kultura 21/22, 2014
"The Philippine-American Contact, the Politics of Memory, and the End(s) of Cinematic Experimentation."
A Philippine Film Reader: History and Criticism: Essays in Honor of Nicanor G. Tiongson, eds. Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Jonathan Chua, and Rolando Tolentino, University of the Philippines Press, 2014
“What is Theory?” and "Notes on the Question of Forging a Filipino Critical Framework."
Communication and Media Theories, eds. Rolando B. Tolentino, Patrick F. Campos, Randy Jay C. Solis, and Choy S. Pangilinan, University of the Philippines Press, 2014
Communication and Media Theories
Co-Editor, University of the Philippines Press, 2014
“Noli me tangere on Television.”
Kritik/Critique: An Anthology of JEN Papers, ed. Oscar V. Campomanes, University of Sto. Tomas Publishing House, 2014
“Early Cinema History and the Emergence of Filipino Film.”
Plaridel 10.1, 2013
“Corporeal History: Historiography & Choreography in Myra Beltran’s Itim Asu.”
Social Science Diliman 8.2, 2013
Manila by Night as Thirdspace
Kritika Kultura 10, 2012
"Ang Pelikulang Rural sa Sineng Indie noong 2005-2008."
Daluyan 17.1-2, 2011
"The Politics of Naming of a Movement: Indie According to Cinemalaya Congress.”
Philippine Humanities Review 13.1, 2011
“The Intersection of Philippine & Global Film Cultures in the New Urban Realism.”
Plaridel 8.1, 2011
“The New Fantasy-Adventure Film as Contemporary Epics (2000-2008).”
Global Makeover: Media and Culture in Asia, ed. Danilo Arao, Development Center for Asia Africa Pacific and Asian Media and Culture Forum, 2010
Selected Presentations
Selected Talks
Courses & Workshops Offered
Mindanao Cinema: Unsettling National and Redrawing Regional Cinemas
2024 Dialogo: Philippine Studies Goes Global, International Conference on Philippine Studies
Telling Sensitive Stories to Resist Disinformation and Historical Distortion
2023 International Conference on Film and Society: Content Creation, Control, and Choice in the Digital Age, Freedom Film Network, Kuala Lumpur
The Ghost of Becoming: Lao Cinema and Its Doubles
2023 Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna
Artists' Moving Images & Resistance during the Duterte Administration
2023 Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference
Audiovisual Culture, Human Rights, and Activist Documentary Practice Under Duterte
2022 SEASIA Biennial Conference, BRIN, Jakarta
KEYNOTE: Truth-Telling and Activist Filmmaking amid the Illiberal Information Disorder
2022 IInternational Southeast Asian Media Studies Conference
Philippine Documentary: A View from the post-COVID Information Disorder
2022 Society for Cinema and Media Society Conference
Documentary Practice & Activism during the Pandemic Lockdown in the Philippines
2021 International Conference on Southeast Asia, Universiti Malaya
From National Cinema to Film Islands
2021 International Southeast Asian Media Studies Association Conference
Mapping Mindanao Cinema
2019 Philippine Studies Conference, SOAS, University of London
Regions Decentering National Cinema
2019 Interseksiyon: Panitikan, Pelikula, at Wikang Filipino
Alternative Beginnings and Contested Futures:
Tracing Rizal in Early Cinema
2018 Bridging Worlds, Illumining the Archive: An International Conference in Honor of Professor Resil B. Mojares
Locating Cinematic Spaces in Tu Pug Imatuy
2018 National Conference on Geographical Studies
Conceptualizing the Genesis of Cinema as Struggle
2018 Philippine Studies Association National Conference, National Museum
Mapping "Independence" in Southeast Asian "Regional" Cinemas
2018 ASEANNALE, Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Southeast Asian Regional Cinemas as Independent Cinema
2017 Seasia Biennial Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Revisiting Lino Brocka and Jose Lacaba’s Orapronobis in Dark Times
2017 Memory International Film Heritage Festival, Yangon
Considering Alternative Beginnings and Different Futures:
Rizal and the End of National Cinema
2017 SANDAAN Philippine Cinema Centennial Conference
Folklore, the Rise of the MMFF, and the Decline of Bakbakan
2017 Sampaksaan sa K’wentong-Bayan, with the theme “Salaysayan: K’wentong-Bayan, Kaalamang-Bayan, University of the Philippines Diliman
A Genealogy of Philippine Film Realism
2016 Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, University of Nottingham-Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Locating Mike De Leon in Philippine Cinema
2016 International Conference on Philippine Studies, Silliman University, Dumaguete
Rural Landscape and the Formation of Philippine Cinema
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
2015 Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
Variations on a Theme: Philippine and South Korean Extreme
2015 Cultural Encounters: Asian Perspectives on Film, Literature and Society, University of Nottingham-Malaysia and Yonsei University, Kuala Lumpur
A Life Built on Shot: Rizal and Documentary
2015 Digital Divide: International Conference on Emerging Trends in Film Practice, University of the Philippines Diliman
KEYNOTE: When/Where Is the End of National Cinema? Philippine Cinema at the Turn of the Century
2015 PASALE, Ateneo de Naga University Center for Culture and the Arts, Naga City, Bicol
Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History
2014 Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Thai Film Archive, Salaya
Anxieties in Philippine Transnational Cinema
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
2013 Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia Workshop, Vietnamese Institute of Culture and Arts, Hanoi
The Politics of Naming a Movement: Independent Cinema According to Cinemalaya
2013 European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of Lisbon
The Face of Rizal as Medium: Nation, Religion, and the Documentary Image
2013 Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia Mid-term Conference, University of Göttingen
Spectacle/Archive: History and Form in the First Screen Rizal
2013 Historiography and Nation since Pasyon and Revolution: Conference in Honor of Reynaldo C. Ileto, Ateneo de Manila University
Narrativizing the Archive: Three Case Studies from Southeast Asia: The Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia
2012 Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, National Museum of Singapore
Manila by Night as Thirdspace
2012 Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong
The Philippine-American Contact, the Politics of Memory, and the End(s) of Cinematic Experimentation
2012 Philippine Film History and Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Nicanor G. Tiongson, University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University
Rizal at the Movies: Adaptation Criticism as Metacriticism
2011 Rizal in the 21st Century: International Sesquicentennial Conference
Making Heroism Unlikely: On the Metafilm and Violence in Indie Cinema
2010 Cinemalaya Congress, Cultural Center of the Philippines
The Fantasy-Adventure Film as Ethnoepic (2000-2007)
2010 Asian Media Cooperation and Cultural Exchange: An International Academic and Cultural Exchange to Promote the Knowledge of Asian Culture
The City and the ‘Camera-Eye’: Intersections of the City Film, National Cinema and Visual Culture
2009 UGAT Conference, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao
Ang Tanawin at Paysaheng Rural sa Bagong Sineng Indie
2008 UGAT Conference, Holy Angel University, Angeles City, Pampanga
Badjao Revisited: Place, Difference, Identity in National Cinema
2024 Lopez Museum and Archive, Power Plant Rockwell, Makati City
The Film Manifesto Is As Old As Cinema Itself
2023 Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Cinema
2023 Ground Glass Film Festival, iAcademy
Is Cinema Dead?
Benilde Talks, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde
The Fascist Mind in Batch '81
2023 Symposium on the Cinema of Mike De Leon, University of the Philippines Diliman
Meshes for Maps: Topologies of Southeast Asian Cinema
2022 Singapore International Film Festival Youth Critics Program
Collective action, individual decisions: political documentaries and activist media collectives (Panel Discussion)
2022 Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Navigating Through the Information Disorder
2022 Meridian International Learning Experience
Who Owns Your IG Post? Media Literacy Today
2021 Meridian International Learning Experience
Categories for a Topology of Southeast Asian Cinema
2021 Singapore Management University
The Confessional Form in Philippine Popular Culture
2021 Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Manila
The Figure of Home and the Negative Island in A House In Pieces
2021 Stories Beyond and Mindanews
Pop Culture and the Project of Decolonization
2021 University of San Carlos, Cebu City
Rethinking Southeast Asian Cinema Studies (Panel Discussion)
2020 Film Department, BINUS University, Jakarta
"We Still Have to Close Our Eyes" and "Alunsina," Conversations with John Torres and Kiri Dalena on the Documentary Form and Filmmaking Under Duterte
2020 Daang Dokyu: A Festival of Philippine Documentaries, FilDocs, Inc.
On "El cuadro" and "La vaquilla" (Panel Discussion)
2020 PELíCULA Spanish Film Festival, Instituto Cervantes de Manila
Philippine Cinema, A Century Thus
2019 Sine Cinema das Filipinas: Nos Cem Anos do Cinema Filipino Film Festival, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon
The Origins of The Contest, The Contest For Origins:
The "Nation" in Early Film History, 1897-1932
2019 Pelikula Lektura: Philippine Cinema Centennial Lecture Series
Regional Filmmaking and Place-Making in the History of Philippine Cinema
2018 Pelikultura: Calabarzon Film Festival, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna
Rizal and the Genesis of Filipino Film
2017 Lopez Museum and Library, Benpres Building, Pasig City
Narratives, Places, and Futures: Southeast Asian Cinemas
2017 Tingin ASEAN Film Festival, Shangri-la Mall, Mandaluyong City
Adaptation Criticism of Screen Rizal as Metacriticism 1912-2012
2016 Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs Symposium, University of the Philippines Diliman
Pinoy Telenovelas and Historical K-Dramas
2015 Korean Cultural Festival, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology
Ang Pelikulang Rural sa Sineng Indie
2014 Rehiyonal na Panitikan bilang Pambansang Panitikan, Writers’ Union of the Philippines (UMPIL) Conference
The Problem with Poverty Porn
2012 Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival
New Urban Realism in Philippine Cinema
2011 University of Asia and the Pacific
"Himala: The Tragic Hero in the Discourse of Nation" and
"Oro Plata Mata: The Macho Hero in the Discourse of Nation"
2010 BRAVO! Celebrating the Filipino: A Film Festival, Filipinas Heritage Library, Cinema, Cebu City
Ethical Questions for the New Realists in Philippine Cinema
2009 Mukha ng Maralita sa Midya: A Symposium on Mass Media Ethics
Literature Thru Film, Film Thru Literature: Adaptation Criticism as Metacriticism
2009 UP College of Mass Communication Faculty Colloquium
Film 10. General Education. Sining Sine
Film 12. General Education. Sine Pinoy
Film 100. Introduction to Cinema and Moving Images
Film 102. Philippine Cinema
Film 103. World Cinema
Film 106. National Cinema: Southeast Asian Cinemas
Film 106. National Cinema: Chinese Cinemas
Film 130. Film Genres
Film 171. Film Theory and Criticism
Film 175. Film and Literature
Film 196. Special Topic: The Cinema of Kidlat Tahimik
Film 196. Special Topic: Film Programming
Film 199. Research in Film
Film 201. Seminar in Film Studies
Film 270. Film Theory
Comm 130. Communication and Media Theory
Media 210. Media Theory
Global Studies 197. Contemporary Korean Society
Seminar/Workshop: Film Experience Clinic / Sining ng Panonood
Seminar/Workshop: Writing About Film and Moving Images
Seminar/Workshop: Media and Information Literacy
Seminar/Workshop: Media and Information Literacy Education
Jury, Selection, and Extension
Jury Member (2024)
4th Jakarta Film Week
Jury Member (2024)
1st ArCuRea
Selection Committee (2024)
20th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival
Jury Member (2024)
5th Fifth Wall Fest
Jury Member (2023)
6th Madani International Film Festival
Jury Member (2023)
29th Kolkata International Film Festival
Jury Member (2023)
4th Ground Glass Film Festival
Selection Committee (2022)
6th SeaShorts Film Festival
Jury Member, Asian Next Wave (2023)
11th QCinema International Film Festival
Selection Committee (2022)
Outstanding Contribution to
Southeast Asian Cinema
33rd Singapore International Film Festival
Jury Member (2022)
18th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival
Jury Member (2018-2020)
Gawad Urian
Organizing Committee (2020)
Daang Dokyu
Jury Member (2021)
16th Jogja Asian Film Festival
Jury Member (2020)
Muntinlupa Independent Film Festival
Co-Programmer (2019)
22nd Guanajuato Film Festival
Jury Member (2018)
66th FAMAS
Jury Member (2018)
13th Cinema One Originals
Jury Member (2018)
6th Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition
Jury Member (2018)
3rd CineAnimo Film Festival
Jury Member (2018)
8th Pelikultura Calabarzon Film Festival
Jury Member (2018)
10th Cinemagis Northern Mindanao Film Festival
Jury Member (2017)
1st Sine Negrense Negros Island Film Festival
Jury Member (2017)
5th CineKasimanwa Western Visayas Film Festival
Jury Member (2016)
4th CineMaralita Film Festival
Selection Committee (2014, 2016)
QCinema International Film Festival
Jury & Organizing Committee (2018 - )
DOST IndieSiyensya
Organizing Committee (2014-2019)
Cinema Rehiyon Film Festival
Organizing Committee (2019)
Expe Film Fest