Tag: Evolution of a Filipino Family

Ausma – Laila Pakalnina (2015)

October 8, 2019

by Nadin Mai

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How does one handle a film, which so strikingly resembles human memory, in particular traumatic memory? The Baltic states have had a tumultuous history, most...

Misc Research

Waiting

July 6, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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What does it mean to wait? What does “waiting” mean nowadays when everyone seems to be always, eternally busy? Are we still waiting, or have...

Festivals Films

Dates for Lav Diaz retrospective in Brussels

August 25, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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The schedule has finally been published and I’m happy to list the dates of the Cinematek’s Lav Diaz retrospective here, starting in mid-September and lasting...

Films Research

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,...

Films

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...