Venues for Lav Diaz film strand wanted
Now that my thesis is almost on the way to the printer, I can start focusing on other things. After three years of research, I have noticed that the work I have done is, in…
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Breaking: Lav Diaz film available for streaming on Mubi
A brief blog post to say that Lav Diaz’s Locarno winning film From What Is Before (2014) is now available for streaming on MUBI (globally) for the next 30 days. Please use the chance and watch…
Death Time
Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my website’s avid readers. I was asked – and this isn’t…
The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz (paper)
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 few months later sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the…
Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part I)
I conducted quite a long interview with Lav Diaz at the Locarno Film Festival, where his new film Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon ran in competition and won the Golden Leopard; a big achievement…
In defense of a lack of craft
I read a rather irritating article about Lav Diaz’s Norte, written by Adrian Martin for the Sight & Sound magazine. His reading of the film is good, but the last paragraph of the article makes…
Absence and Presence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Paper)
Absence and Presence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012) 9 April 2014, Research Seminar, University of Stirling Introduction In summer 2012, I sat in the Edinburgh Filmhouse and waited for the screening of Florentina…
Melancholia – Lav Diaz (2008)
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 on the film. I saw Melancholia in Newcastle in March…
Southcliffe is Slow
Is it really? The new four-part drama on Channel 4 received substantial attention before the first episode went on air. This was not only due to the rather sensitive issues of trauma, loss and grief….