Guest Speaker, The Archive Project: A Conversation with Light Field, San Francisco State University, Fall 2021 (Aug. 26)
Presenter, “Critical Digitality and Indeterminable Frames: Approaches and Applications for the Moving Image,” 2022 UCLA Artifacts Conference (Apr. 23)
Co-Moderator, Handmade Cinemas, Unruly Films: Preserving DIY and Nontraditional Film Elements, Fall 2021 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Online (Nov. 19)
Guest Speaker, CINE 605: Exhibition, Distribution & Festivals: Film Marketing and Reframing the Future of Cinema, San Francisco State University, Fall 2021
Light Field at Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) 8 (Jun. 5, 2021): https://www.winnipeguff.com/index.php/2021-program/24--light-field/(opens in a new tab)
Panel Chair, Taking Stock of Amateur Film: Advancing Preservation Through Online Resources, Spring 2021 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Online (Apr. 14)
Co-Presenter, I Know the End: A Salon with Light Field, Canyon Cinema, Online (Feb. 11, 2021): https://canyoncinema.com/2021/02/01/i-know-the-end-a-salon-with-light-field/(opens in a new tab)
Invited Panelist, The After After Life of Home Movies, 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Presented by the Center for Home Movies and the Roxie Theater, Online (Jan. 29): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfHbc60SBoM(opens in a new tab)
Guest Presenter and Collective Member, Commingled Containers: Echoes from the Bay, Program 2—covalences: works from black hole collective film lab, San Francisco Cinematheque, Online (Jan. 9, 2021): https://www.sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/covalences-works-from-black-hole-collective-film-lab/(opens in a new tab)
Invited Co-Presenter, Center for Asian American Media’s “Memories to Light,” The Exploratorium, After Dark Online: Sustenance—Home Movies, Online (Nov. 5, 2020): https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/after-dark-online-home-movies(opens in a new tab)
Curator, Light Field 2020, Program 7: http://www.lightfieldfilm.org/2020-program-7(opens in a new tab) [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
Guest Speaker, Members of Light Field, CINE 601: Film Programming and Exhibitions Management, San Francisco State University, Spring 2020
Invited Panelist, Home Movie Digitization and Access: New Models for Outreach, 2019 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Baltimore, MD (Nov. 16)
Guest Artist and Presenter, Members of Black Hole Collective Film Lab, FILM 176: Experimental Video Workshop, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall 2019
Villon, Patricia Ledesma. Review of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality by Genevieve Yue. The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (Forthcoming)
Villon, Patricia Ledesma. “Indeterminable Frames: Exploring Digital Humanities Approaches and Applications for the Moving Image.” Cinergie – Il Cinema e Le Altre Arti 10, no. 20 (2021): 125–38. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/13055(opens in a new tab).
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Media Archival Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Thesis: "From Creation to Preservation: Film Laboratories in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Field"
B.A. in Media Studies
University of California, Berkeley
2022 UCLA School of Education and Information Studies Marjorie S. Mardellis Scholarship
2021 Association of Moving Image Archivists Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship
2021-22 American Library Association Spectrum Scholar
2020 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Scholarship Award
2019 Association of Moving Image Archivists Savada Family Legacy Fund Travel Grant
Fluent English proficiency, Full Cebuano (Bisaya) proficiency, Working Tagalog proficiency, Elementary French proficiency