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.
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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.
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
We invite paper and panel proposals to present at the 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society conference to be held at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) during May 22-24, 2025. As a non-profit scholarly organization, the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) actively fosters international research in Asian film and media and publishes the flagship peer-reviewed journal Asian Cinema (Intellect). With the support of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies Programme (MALCS), and the Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, ACSS brings its first face-to-face meeting since the global pandemic back to Hong Kong, a major Asian metropolis, transport hub, filmmaking capital, and connective node of regional, inter-Asian, and transpacific cultural globalization.
