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Duncan Caillard
Dr Duncan Caillard is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. and a bachelor of arts (Honours) in screen and cultural studies from the University of Melbourne, where his dissertation presented the first systematic study of the screen works of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His research investigates on the intersections of narrative art cinema, film philosophy and experimental filmmaking in the Asia-Pacific, with particular interest in works of anti-authoritarian and decolonial art practice in Thailand and Hawai’i. His current research project investigates the history of independent filmmaking in Hawai’i, with a focus on how Indigenous and diasporic communities use moving images to negotiate politics, place and identity. His first monograph, Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Contemplation and Resistance, is forthcoming 2025 with Edinburgh University Press.
Contact: Auckland University of Technology, 55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.