Prologue to the Great Desaparecido – Lav Diaz (2013)
It's rare that Lav Diaz creates a short film. His contribution to a film omnibus for the Venice Film Festival last year was, I think,...
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Tag: Death in the Land of Encantos
Between Suspense and Time Terror
September 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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As a result of the paper I gave at the University of Stirling at the beginning of the month, I looked more into aspects of...
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The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz (paper)
September 8, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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RPG Conference, University of Stirling, 4 September 2014 Introduction At the end of 1943, Primo Levi, a trained chemist from Italy, was arrested, and a...
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The different slowness in Evolution of a Filipino Family
July 28, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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After my initial thoughts on Lav Diaz's Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), I am now in the position to say a bit more about it,...
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Mourning Cinema
May 16, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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For parts of my work on Lav Diaz's Melancholia, I read Richard Armstrong's Mourning Films (2012). It wasn't quite as helpful as I thought for...
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Melancholia – Lav Diaz (2008)
April 26, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I have seen Lav Diaz's Melancholia three times so far. As it's time for a new chapter now, it's also time for a brief post...
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Evolution of a Filipino Family – Lav Diaz (2004)
April 5, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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The following are initial thoughts after having seen Diaz's eleven hour epic Evolution of a Filipino Family. Similar to all of his other films, there is...
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The (in)significance of dialogue
April 3, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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While adding a few paragraphs to my chapter on Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos (2007), it occurred to me that for some slow...
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The invisible princes
March 11, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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When I watched Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos again, I had a nice encounter with a prince, the prince of the black dwarfs...
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Alimuom – Benjamin Agusan (poetry)
March 6, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Benjamin Agusan is a fictional poet in Lav Diaz’s Death in the Land of Encantos (2007). A great poet on the verge of losing his sanity. He...
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