Welcome
My name is James Batcho. I’m a professor, writer and lecturer on a variety of subjects, from storytelling and cinema to philosophy and media. I’m the author of the book Sound for Independent Audiovisual Storytelling and my second book, Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema: Memory, Time and Audibility, will be published this June. I’ve written for Media Culture & Society, Studies in European Cinema, Journal of Sonic Studies, Film-Philosophy, The New Soundtrack and Atropos Press.
I currently teach film theory and practice in the Cinema and Television department at United International College in Zhuhai. For the past 11 years I have taught at universities in China, South Korea and the United States and given lectures and readings in Singapore, Australia, and Denmark. I earned summa cum laude honors for my dissertation Logos of Cinema: Memory and the Audibility of Unseeing at the European Graduate School.
I was sound designer and music supervisor for the documentary Ari Ari the Korean Cinema, which premiered at the prestigious PIFF Film Festival and ran nationwide in South Korea in 2013. I currently have a backlog of essays to compose, but I hope to return to designing sound for future films.
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Recent Posts
ZHUHAI. I work from the idea that we are all involved and implicated in the same ambient matrix that is comprised of various relations of movement, thought and activity. Life works its way through actual events that emerge and fade,......
25 May, 2018
CHIANG MAI. It’s too bad the Colin Kaepernick story is only playing out in sports media, because to me it’s a huge story about contemporary America that should be getting much more attention. His situation is Black Lives Matter colliding......
05 August, 2017
CHIANG MAI. In my last entry I wrote about my appreciation for the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. A few people asked me how to begin reading him and that spurred me to write up this entry. Keep in mind this is a......
04 July, 2017
CHIANG MAI. I’ve just finished my twelfth book by Deleuze, thirteenth if you count one with Guattari, plus a couple of half-readings of other books and a smattering of essays. That just seems nuts to me, too much for one......
27 June, 2017