The Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab) is a network of Asian cinema and media researchers working in Asia and beyond. The ACR Lab aims to forge strong alliances with the world’s leading film studies institutions and film festivals.
This collaborative project examines the impact of Netflix, the leading online streaming platform, on the production, distribution, and consumption of South Korean cultural industries in the expanding global media market.
Thank you! Your support helped make Netflix and South Korean Media in a Globalizing World Conference a big success. Thank you very much for coming to our conference from South Korea, the US, Canada, Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
The papers delivered at the conference will be compiled and published as part of Brill’s “Youth in a Globalizing World” series. The book is expected to be published in early 2026.
The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference will take place at Chiang Mai University, on 14 – 16 August 2025.
The focus of the conference is Sustainable Futures: ecologies, kinships and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas. This theme will be addressed from a broad range of perspectives in order to encourage critical engagement with current debates in film theory and the environmental humanities, inviting papers that theorize the diverse film and media practices across Southeast Asia including new developments in artists’ moving image, video art, VR, and activist media.
International Conference
“The Planetary Turn and the Geopolitics of Time:
Cinematic Reimaginations in a Time of Climate Crisis”
Date: Friday 1 & Saturday 2 November 2024
Venue: Room 712, 7th floor, Humanities Building, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
Programme: https://reurl.cc/Mj2W0k
