Nadine Chan is assistant professor at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. She has published in Cinema Journal, Journal of Environmental Media, Periscope for Social Text, Studies in Documentary Film and the anthologies Theorizing Colonial Cinema and Screening Race in Nontheatrical Film. Her book manuscript-in-progress is titled A Cinema Under the Palms: Colonial Worldmaking in an Unruly Medium. Chan’s second research project investigates humid media in Southeast Asia.