Ludo De Roo

Ludo de Roo studied media studies at the University of Amsterdam and obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). In Sydney, he has taught widely in both philosophy and media theory. His publications combine phenomenological philosophy and ecocinema theory, with research on film-philosophical topics such as elemental mediation, the structure of immersion, and cinematic imagination. He also has a monograph in progress on the notion of the ‘elemental image’ capturing how cinematic images of the elements spark a specific type of imagination that plunges the spectator within cinematic worlds. In May 2026, Ludo has joined CATNEMI as a Postdoctoral Researcher with a focus on investigating how other media forms adopt the operations of cinematic atmosphere.