[NOW AVAILABLE!] Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in Asia-Pacific

SEAPAVAA is proud to announce that the anthology, Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in Asia-Pacific, edited by Nick Deocampo, is now available for purchase. This book is co-published by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Press and Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA), in cooperation with Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and Vietnam Film Institute (VFI).

You may purchase a copy of the book through the following:

ADMU Website: bit.ly/KM-web
Shopee: bit.ly/KM-s
Lazada: bit.ly/KM-lzd

ABOUT THE BOOK

Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in the Asia-Pacific edited by Nick Deocampo brings together film scholars, archivists, film artists, academics, media practitioners, historians, and cultural advocates to share their thoughts that touch the heart of our Asian film heritage. In four themes, the sections in this anthology deal with topics such as Archives and Memory, Archives and National Identity, Archives and the Asia-Pacific, and Archives and Cinema History.

The book covers topics as varied as personal meanderings in the region and archival encounters, lacunae in film deposits, archival ambiguities, cinematic imaginaries of nation, pandemic media, digital archive, and “lost” film histories. Contributors in the anthology include Stephen Bottomore, Karen Chan, Bede Cheng, Nick Deocampo, Wimal Dissanayake, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Aaron Gerow, David Hanan, Joshua Harris, Dina Iordanova, Bliss Cua Lim, Gina Marchetti, Charles Musser, Mick Newnham, Benedic ‘Bono’ Salazar Olgado, Nguyen Minh Phuong, Joie Springer, Akira Tochigi, and Nadi Tofighian. With preface by Ray Edmondson.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

NICK DEOCAMPO is a filmmaker and film historian. An associate professor at the UP Film Institute in the University of the Philippines, he took up his masters of arts degree in Cinema Studies at New York University as a Fulbright scholar and received his Certificate in Film in Paris, France. An advocate of film archiving, he has written books and articles on the subject, such as Lost Films of Asia, Films from a “Lost” Cinema, Historiography of a “Lost” Cinema, and Envisioning a Rhizomatic Audio-Visual Archiving for the Future. He is a four-time recipient of the Philippine National Book Award, and his publications cover subjects from film history to film literacy. He was formerly chair of the UNESCO Philippines Memory of the World Committee.