The eighth volume of Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image was launched on 23 December 2023, and is now available and free for download on Pelikulajournal.com.

In this volume, the esteemed journal explores and challenges boundaries in Philippine motion picture and moving image production and circulation, aiming to open new avenues for theorizing and research.

The essays cover diverse topics, such as the relationship between bodies and movements and the film apparatus, conceptualizations of moving-image media beyond the framework of cinema, the contentious history and recent productivity of sex cinema, and the place of queer, laboring and activist bodies in contemporary filmmaking, both onscreen and behind the scenes, and others.

Contributors include Myra C. Beltran, Clarissa Chikiamco, Rosemarie O. Roque, Alaine Loraine Fabian Ansong, Abel A. Ubaldo, Joelle Jacinto, Dodo Dayao, John Patrick Manio, Ryan Oquiza, Laurence Marvin Castillo, Eric Abalajon, Edward Paciano Cabagnot, Cocoy Lumbao Jr., Lena Cobangbang, Tad Ermitaño, Mariah Reodica, Yason Banal, Louise Jashil Sonido, Chesca Santiago, Samantha Lee, Chrissy Cruz Ustaris, Khavn dela Cruz, Corinne de San Jose, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Neil Daza, Katrina Stuart Santiago and Cindy Cruz Cabrera.

This latest volume is also dedicated to oral historian, film programmer, cultural organizer, archiving and regional filmmaking advocate Teddy Co, who passed away on 1 November 2023 and “whose passion for cinema and the moving image has enriched the work of many artists and researchers represented in the pages of the journal,” wrote editor-in-chief Patrick F. Campos in his introduction.

Published annually by the University of the Philippines Film Institute, Pelikula is edited by Campos with Tito Quiling Jr. and Louise Jashil Sonido as associate editors.