From AKO to ako: Kinship, Fascism, and the Unfinished Subject in Mike De Leon’s Batch ’81
Forthcoming · Nang, no. 10
Small Rooms, Short Films, Long Routes
Marginalia.id · 14 October 2026
New Era, Living Skin: Screens, Technology, and the Material Life of Images at BIFAN 30
Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) · 2026
Nouvelle ère, peau vivante : écrans, technologie et vie matérielle des images au BIFAN 30
Cinealliance · 5 October 2026 · In French
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas
Co-edited with Alicia Izharuddin · Routledge · 2026
Region as Method, Cinema as Practice: Conditions of Legibility
Co-authored with Alicia Izharuddin
In Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas · Routledge · 2026
Varieties of Political Cinema in Myanmar: Frames of Resistance
In Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas · Routledge · 2026
This Is Not an Essay about Khavn
Senses of Cinema, no. 118 · Great Directors · July 2026
Decrees, Shorelines, Testimony: A Pedagogy of Southeast Asian Cinema
Studies in World Cinema 6, no. 2 · 2026
Resonant Legacy Media
Issue editor · Plaridel 22, no. 2 · December 2025
Foreword to Manong: The Life and Works of Gerardo de Leon
Book by Nicanor G. Tiongson · University of the Philippines Press · 2025
Political Cinema: 1939–2024
CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Digital Edition · 2025
Diaries and Dreams – On Films of Resistance from Myanmar
Asian Movie Pulse · 2024
A Jury Member Looks Back at How KIFF 2023 Imagined Cinematic Regions
The Telegraph India · 2024
QCinema International Film Festival
Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) · 2023
Celebrating Muslim Diversity at Madani Film Festival
Tempo Jakarta · 2023
We Deserve That, Too: An Interview with Samantha Lee
Pelikula, vol. 8 · 2023
Film as an Invitation to Participate in Our History
Foreword to Nick Deocampo’s Philippine Cinema and History
Ateneo de Manila University 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]
Translated by Zhong Ruohan · In 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, vol. 7 · 2022
Scenes Reclaimed: CCP 50 × Cinemalaya 15
Editor and co-author with Karl Castro, Tito Quiling Jr., and Loujaye Sonido · Cultural Center of the Philippines · 2021
Topos, Historia, Islas: Film Islands and Regional Cinemas
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60, no. 3 · 2021
That Should Be the Status Quo: An Interview with Antoinette Jadaone
Pelikula, vol. 6 · 2021
Huwebes, Huwebes—Rooted, Omnibus, Expansive
Sinekultura, no. 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
Documentary in the Time of a Thousand Deaths: A Despatch from the Philippines
Moving Image Review & Art Journal 9, no. 2 · 2020
On Making Romance Movies: An Interview with Irene Emma Villamor
Pelikula, vol. 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
In Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis
Edited by 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, no. 1 · 2020
Art Archive 02
Section editor · The Japan Foundation, Manila · 2019
Small Film, Global Connections
Art Archive 02 · The Japan Foundation, Manila · 2019
On Building the Mindanao Film Archive
Pelikula, vol. 4 · 2019
Being Chanthaly, Becoming Lao Cinema
Situations 12, no. 2 · 2019
Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image
Editor-in-chief · 2019–present
The Politics of Religion in Southeast Asian Cinemas
Issue editor · Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 12, no. 2 · 2019
Open Issue
Issue editor · Plaridel 16, no. 1 · 2019
One Hundred Years of Philippine Cinema: The 1990s to the Present
Agung 21, no. 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)]
Translated by Ma Wentao · 当代电影 / Contemporary Film, no. 7 · 2018
A Portrait of Kidlat Tahimik, A Godfather of Filipino Indie Cinema
In Direk: Essays on Filipino Filmmakers
Edited by Clodualdo del Mundo Jr. and Shirley O. Lua · Manila & Brighton: De La Salle University Publishing House & Sussex Academic Press · 2018
Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art
Author of 66 entries in the Film, Broadcast Arts, and Literature volumes · 2018
Nick Deocampo’s Eiga: Cinema in the Philippines During World War II (2016)
Social Science Diliman 13, no. 1 · 2017
Binisaya, A New Generation of Cebuano Filmmakers: An Interview with Keith Deligero and Ara Chawdhury
Plaridel 14, no. 1 · 2017
Humanities Diliman
Editor-in-chief · 2017–2020
Artists and Intellectuals and Their Public Spheres
Issue editor · Plaridel 14, no. 2 · 2017
Korea Crossing Cultures
Issue editor · Plaridel 14, no. 1 · 2017
The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century
Author · University of the Philippines Press · 2016
The Emergence of a New Lao Cinema: An Interview with Anysay Keola and Xaisongkham Induangchanthy
Plaridel 13, no. 2 · 2016
Jonathan Corpus Ong’s The Poverty of Television: The Media of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines (2016)
Philippine Studies 64, no. 2 · 2016
Rural Landscapes and the Formation of Philippine Cinema
Situations 9, no. 1 · 2016
Intellectuals, the Public Arena, and the Nation
Issue editor · Plaridel 13, no. 1 · 2016
The Invention of Lao Horror: Interview with Mattie Do
Plaridel 12, no. 2 · 2015
Kidlat Tahimik and the Determination of a Native Filmmaker
Kritika Kultura, no. 25 · 2015
Locating Southeast Asian Horror
Issue co-editor with Katarzyna Ancuta · Plaridel 12, no. 2 · 2015
Politics in Mainstream, Underground, and New Media
Issue editor · Plaridel 12, no. 1 · 2015
Communication and Media Theories
Co-editor with Rolando B. Tolentino, Randy Jay C. Solis, and Choy S. Pangilinan · University of the Philippines Press · 2014
What Is Theory?; Notes on the Question of Forging a Filipino Critical Framework
Two essays in Communication and Media Theories
Edited by Rolando B. Tolentino, Patrick F. Campos, Randy Jay C. Solis, and Choy S. Pangilinan · University of the Philippines Press · 2014
The Philippine-American Contact, the Politics of Memory, and the End(s) of Cinematic Experimentation
In A Philippine Film Reader: History and Criticism: Essays in Honor of Nicanor G. Tiongson
Edited by Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Jonathan Chua, and Rolando Tolentino · University of the Philippines Press · 2014
Noli me tangere on Television
In Kritik/Critique: An Anthology of JEN Papers
Edited by Oscar V. Campomanes · University of Santo Tomas Publishing House · 2014
Ghostly Allegories: Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History
Kritika Kultura, no. 21 · 2013
Early Cinema History and the Emergence of “Filipino” Film
Plaridel 10, no. 1 · 2013
Corporeal Histories: An Interview with Myra Beltran on Itim Asu: 1719–2011
Social Science Diliman 8, no. 2 · 2012
Manila by Night as Thirdspace
Kritika Kultura, no. 19 · 2012
Ang Pelikulang Rural sa Sineng Indie noong 2005–2008
Daluyan 17, nos. 1–2 · 2011
The Politics of Naming of a Movement: Indie According to Cinemalaya Congress
Philippine Humanities Review 13, no. 1 · 2011
The Intersection of Philippine and Global Film Cultures in the New Urban Realist Film
Plaridel 8, no. 1 · 2011
The New Fantasy-Adventure Film as Contemporary Epics (2000–2008)
In Global Makeover: Media and Culture in Asia
Edited by Danilo Arao · Development Center for Asia Africa Pacific and Asian Media and Culture Forum · 2010
