Author Pujita Guha

Pujita Guha

Pujita Guha is a curator, artist and a PhD Candidate at the Film and Media Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She also runs the artistic, and indisciplinary research platform, Forest Curriculum along with Abhijan Toto. Her curatorial, artistic, and academic interests include thinking about forests & frontiers, cinema and media, infrastructures, popular cultures of South & Southeast Asia.

In search of a Global Filipino Auteur: Sine ni Lav Diaz, edited by Parichay Patra and Micheal Kho Lim

Pujita Guha

January 2023

Book Reviews

“Sine ni Lav Diaz”, roughly translated as “The cinema of Lav Diaz”, appears at the end of every Diaz film, signalling the auteur’s presence, as it were. Auteur signatures are hardly new in cinema. From Jean-Luc...