Digital Cinema in the Philippines 1999-2009

About the Author

Eloisa May P. Hernandez is a Professor at the Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines in Diliman where she teaches art history, photography, popular art and culture, and Philippine cinema. She finished her B.A. Art Studies, M.A. in Art History, and Ph.D. in Philippine Studies with a dissertation on The Political Economy of Digital Cinema in the Philippines, 1999-2009 in U.P. Diliman.

She is the author of Digital Cinema in the Philippines, 1999-2009 (2014) and Women Visual Artists in 19th century Philippines (2004). She has also co-authored several books such as Philippine Art and Culture (2012) published by Anvil and YCC Film Desk’s Sining ng Sineng Filipino (2009) published by U.P. Sentro ng Wikang Filipino.

She served as panel convenor and delivered papers in several international conferences such as European Association for South East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS) Conferences, Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC), and Asian Film Archive Forum on Asian Cinema. Her works are published in several refereed journals and anthologies.

A recipient of the Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program grant, she researched on digital cinema in Southeast Asia the results of which are published as a chapter entitled “The Beginnings of Digital Cinema in Southeast Asia” in the book Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Contemporary Southeast Asia by Cornell University.

In 1999, she was awarded the Gawad Chanselor para sa Pinakamahusay na Guro. Dr. Hernandez has been elected as an Executive Committee Member of the National Committee on Cultural Education of the NCCA for 2004-2007. She also served as an elected executive committee member of the NCCA National Committee on Visual Arts, 1998-2001. She is a former member of the Young Critics Circle Film Desk and served as its President in 2012.

She recently had a solo online exhibit of UP Diliman photographs during the lockdown on VMeme Contemporary Art Gallery https://www.vmemecontemporary.com/uneasy-peace

Widely known to her former students as “MamE,” she serves as the faculty adviser of the UP Pep Squad, together with her partner, Dr. Grace Gregorio. They have five baby dogs.

Photograph by Miguel V. Mondragon

Coming soon! Digital Cinema in the Philippines, 1999-2009

Finished checking the final draft of the manuscript for Digital Cinema in the Philippines, 1999-2009. Here’s a teaser of the book cover designed by the award-winning designer, Lech Velasco

Call for Papers for 7th EuroSEAS Conference extended until 31st December 2012

You may still submit proposals for the panel on The Changing Landscape of Cinema in Southeast Asia: From Celluloid to Digital Cinema 

 

Digital cinema emerged in Southeast Asia in the late 1990s and has since changed cinema in the region. The panel aims to investigate the technological shift from celluloid to digital filmmaking in Southeast Asian cinemas, the concomitant shifts in the political economy of cinemas in Southeast Asia, as well as the aesthetic implications of the digital technology.The panel welcomes papers that delve into the emergence of digital cinema in Southeast Asia, trace the technological shift from celluloid to digital; narrate the history of digital cinema in the region; investigate how digital films are produced, distributed, and exhibited; explore notions of independence in relation to digital cinema and to the “mainstream” film industry in Southeast Asian countries; examine how Southeast Asian filmmakers use the digital technology to subvert the mainstream modes of production, distribution and exhibition as a form of resistance; and research on the role of the information and communications technology in the emergence and propagation of digital cinema in the region. The panel also looks forward to studies in the aesthetic tendencies that arose from the emergence of digital cinema in Southeast Asia. Film histories focused on particular countries are welcome but comparative cross-country presentations are also encouraged.

 

Panel Convenor: Eloisa May P. Hernandez. Ph.D., Associate Professor

Affiliation: Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines in Diliman; Former Chair of the Young Critics Circle Film Desk

Email proposals to eloindigoart@gmail.com before December 31, 2012. The text should not exceed 1.500 characters (including spaces). Title of the paper, name of the author(s) and affiliation must be included.

The 7th EuroSEAS Conference will be held in Lisboa, Portugal, from the 2nd to the 5th July, 2013. The host institution will be the School of Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisboa (ISCSP/UTL).