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'Lav Diaz' or 'Lavrente Indico Diaz' is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines, on December 30, 1958. He is recognized in the Philippines and internationally as one of the few Filipino filmmakers who have not used the Hollywood style of filmmaking that is dominant in the Philippines and the world over. He has won several international awards such as the award for Best Picture at the Singapore International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival of Brussels and Gawad Urian in 2002 and Netpac Jury Prize for his film ''"Batang West Side"'' (including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Music, Best Sound at the Urian), Best Picture in .MOV International Digital Film Festival and Gawad Urian in 2005 for the film ''"Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino" (Evolution of a Filipino Family),'' and Special Jury Prize at the Fribourg International Film Festival in 2006 for ''"Heremias, Book One". '' His films often tackle the issues regarding the current social and political state of the Philippines. His new film ''"Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto" (Death in the Land of Encantos)'' is the Closing Film (also In Competition) of the 'orizzonti' section of the Venice Film Festival 2007. "Death in the Land of Encantos" is also in competition at the Artistic Innovation Award (Visions) of the the Toronto International Film Festival 2007. He received several awards at the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
'From the Venice Film Festival 2007 Programme:'
“The birth of ''Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto'' is unexpected, spontaneous and pressingâ€, so director Lav Diaz has declared. “It was unexpected because when the idea for the film came to me I was still in the middle of directing another film; spontaneous because it was never planned and the takes came naturally; and pressing because the film’s vision, and essentially its esthetic make-up, portrays the pressure that Philippine society is underâ€. Lav Diaz’s work, in which Roeder Camanag, Perry Dizon, Angeli Bayani, Dante Perez, Sophia Aves, participate, is a reflection on the death of beauty, harmony, the decline of the sublime: a painful answer to the affirmation by prince MiÅ¡kin in Dostoevskij’s “Idiotâ€: “Beauty will save the worldâ€. On 30 November 2006 typhoon Reming hit the Philippines, killing hundreds of people and sweeping away many of the villages around the Mayon volcano, in the Bicol region. Nine hours of uninterrupted downpours and heavy gales caused harrowing deaths and destruction. The debris, the rocks, the mud and the sand of the volcano completely covered the area. Serene weather followed. The scene of the consequences was apocalyptic. It was the most powerful typhoon the Philippines had ever experienced. ''Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto'' is the story of the great Philippine poet Benjamin Agusan, who returns to his place of birth, Padang, which has now been destroyed. Agusan lived in Russia for seven years, on a study grant, teaching and leading workshops at the university. He continued to write poetry, and published two books which describe his sadness. He made several videos, fell in love with a Slavik woman, but immediately lost a child and almost went mad. He returned in order to bury his father, mother, sister and companion, to heal wounds, or create new ones, to reminisce and reflect, to confront Mayon, with its cruel beauty, his former muse and inspiration in his youth. He went home in order to face the country he had loved and hated so much: the Philippines. His return is an esthetic voyage, the glossy touch to Rainer Maria Rilke’s verse in “Duino Elegy I†(1987): “Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorâ€.
Lav Diaz was born in 1958 in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines and is recognised as the ideological father of the New Philippine Film Movement. His monumental trilogy ''Batang West Side (West Side Kid'', 2002), ''Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino Family'', 2005) and ''Ikalawang Aklat: Ang Alamat ng Prinsesang Bayawak (Heremias'', 2006), is the archetype of a cinema without compromises and which is esthetically rigorous and homogeneous. The three films are considered to be modern masterpieces of Philippine cinema. Stubborn and independent, and a radical anti-Hollywood film director, Lav Diaz studied cinematography at the Mowelfund Film Institute (Philippines), after studying economics (Ateneo de Davao University, Ateneo de Manila University, Notre Dame University). His works include: ''Serafin Geronimo: kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion (The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion'', 1998), ''Burger Boys'' (1999), ''Hubad sa ilalim ng buwan (Naked Under the Moon'', 1999), ''Hesus rebolusyunaryo (Jesus Revolutionary,'' 2002). Lav Diaz now lives between Manila and New York, and his work has always been stylistically coherent and emphasizes content rather than form, thus being a poet of the fate of humanity and the Philippine people.
''Venice, July 24, 2007''
★ (''Serafin Geronimo: Kriminal ng Barrio Concepcion'') - Criminal of Barrio Concepcion, 1998
★ ''("Burger Boys")'' - 1999
★ (''Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan'') - Naked Under the Moon, 1999
★ (''Batang West Side'') - West Side Kid, 2002
''
★ ("Hesus Rebolusyunaryo"'') - Jesus, Revolutionary, 2002
★ (''Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino) - The Evolution of a Filipino Family''), 2004
★ ["Heremias (Unang Aklat: Ang Alamat ng Prinsesang Bayawak)]" - Heremias (Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess), 2006
★ ''("Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto")'' - Death in the Land of Encantos, 2007
___________________________________________________________________________
1. A Conversation with Lav Diaz
http://criticine.com/interview_article.php?id=21
2. A Chronicle from Lav Diaz
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/34/lav_diaz.html
3. Lav Diaz's ''Evolution of a Filipino Family''
http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/archives/000674.html
4. Heremias
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2006/11/heremias-2006.html
5. The Greatest Filipino Film of the Last 20 Years
http://www.xanga.com/filmangel/565857075/best-filipino-film-of-the-last-20-years.html
6. 11 hours in a life's cause
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/26/style/fam.php
7. A Rearrangement of a Troubled Landscape
http://www.ourownvoice.com/essays/essay2005e-6.shtml
8. An Introduction
http://cinepod.blogspot.com/2005/06/lav-diaz-introduction.html
9. The Most Important Filipino Filmmaker Today
http://cinematografica.wordpress.com/2007/05/05/lav-diaz/
10. Heremias
http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2006/11/heremias-lav-diaz-2006.html
11. Batang West Side
http://www.filmsasia.net/gpage74.html
12. Portrait of the Anguish as Filipino
http://www.isolacinema.org/_media/diaz_EKRAN_1.rtf.
13. Batang West Side: Diskurso ng Konsensiya
http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/articles.php?artcl_Id=85
14. A Quiet Revolution
http://www.firecracker-media.com/interviews/interview2001.shtml
15. Revolutions
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=2461&catid=110
16. Lights, Camera, Inaction
http://www.firecracker-media.com/features/feature1501.shtml
17. Paul Tanedo on the Making of Ebolusyon
http://www.ourownvoice.com/essays/essay2005e-7.shtml
18. Batang West Side
http://members.tripod.com/MANILAJC/batangwestside.htm.
19. Ebolusyon Reviews and Articles
http://www.ebolusyon.com/
20. The Festival with No Limits
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/05/35/rotterdam2005.html
21. Lav Diaz: Portrait of the Artist as a Filmmaker
http://www.pinoyfilm.com/lav-diaz-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-filmmaker
22. Heremias: A Different Cinematic Experience
http://igme.blogs.friendster.com/igme/2006/11/heremias_a_diff.html
23. Batang West Side
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~singbigo/batangwestside.html
24. Brocka and Diaz Retros in Torino
http://www.dmc.keio.ac.jp/en/review/torino_garcia1.html
25. Best Films of 2004
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=386891
26. Filipino Films in the Age of Deconstruction
http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/columns/MDE3Mg.html
27. Void in the Voices
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/07/42/vienna-iff-2006.html
28. Lav Diaz in Venice 2007
http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/
29. Closing Night Honors
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=79215
30. Hesus Rebolusyunaryo
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/07/hesus-rebolusyonaryo-2002.html
31. Homage to Lav Diaz
http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=lav+diaz&fr=yfp-t-465&u=oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/&w=lav+diaz&d=JxiYt-ljPNo2&icp=1&.intl=us
32. 'Death' in Toronto http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/news/e3i2a49dfc07d42653167877f06a3b1af23
33. TIFF News
http://blogto.com/film/2007/08/tight_race_for_artistic_innovation_award_at_tiff07/
34. Death in the land of Encantos/TIFF
http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?id=705141612361386
35. Venice Awaits Lav Diaz
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=85929
36. Venice Awaits Lav Diaz (Pt. 2 of interview)
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=86077
37. The Film is Long...
http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/08/30/the-film-is-long-very-long/
38. Death in the Land of Encantos
http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/cinema/en/77598.2.html
39. A German Article by Tilman Baumgärtel
http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=film-artikel&art=3776&id=film-artikel&cHash=cdc7c53fa7
40. A longer version of this interview in English
http://www.greencine.com/central/lavdiaz
'From the Venice Film Festival 2007 Programme:'
“The birth of ''Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto'' is unexpected, spontaneous and pressingâ€, so director Lav Diaz has declared. “It was unexpected because when the idea for the film came to me I was still in the middle of directing another film; spontaneous because it was never planned and the takes came naturally; and pressing because the film’s vision, and essentially its esthetic make-up, portrays the pressure that Philippine society is underâ€. Lav Diaz’s work, in which Roeder Camanag, Perry Dizon, Angeli Bayani, Dante Perez, Sophia Aves, participate, is a reflection on the death of beauty, harmony, the decline of the sublime: a painful answer to the affirmation by prince MiÅ¡kin in Dostoevskij’s “Idiotâ€: “Beauty will save the worldâ€. On 30 November 2006 typhoon Reming hit the Philippines, killing hundreds of people and sweeping away many of the villages around the Mayon volcano, in the Bicol region. Nine hours of uninterrupted downpours and heavy gales caused harrowing deaths and destruction. The debris, the rocks, the mud and the sand of the volcano completely covered the area. Serene weather followed. The scene of the consequences was apocalyptic. It was the most powerful typhoon the Philippines had ever experienced. ''Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto'' is the story of the great Philippine poet Benjamin Agusan, who returns to his place of birth, Padang, which has now been destroyed. Agusan lived in Russia for seven years, on a study grant, teaching and leading workshops at the university. He continued to write poetry, and published two books which describe his sadness. He made several videos, fell in love with a Slavik woman, but immediately lost a child and almost went mad. He returned in order to bury his father, mother, sister and companion, to heal wounds, or create new ones, to reminisce and reflect, to confront Mayon, with its cruel beauty, his former muse and inspiration in his youth. He went home in order to face the country he had loved and hated so much: the Philippines. His return is an esthetic voyage, the glossy touch to Rainer Maria Rilke’s verse in “Duino Elegy I†(1987): “Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorâ€.
Lav Diaz was born in 1958 in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines and is recognised as the ideological father of the New Philippine Film Movement. His monumental trilogy ''Batang West Side (West Side Kid'', 2002), ''Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino Family'', 2005) and ''Ikalawang Aklat: Ang Alamat ng Prinsesang Bayawak (Heremias'', 2006), is the archetype of a cinema without compromises and which is esthetically rigorous and homogeneous. The three films are considered to be modern masterpieces of Philippine cinema. Stubborn and independent, and a radical anti-Hollywood film director, Lav Diaz studied cinematography at the Mowelfund Film Institute (Philippines), after studying economics (Ateneo de Davao University, Ateneo de Manila University, Notre Dame University). His works include: ''Serafin Geronimo: kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion (The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion'', 1998), ''Burger Boys'' (1999), ''Hubad sa ilalim ng buwan (Naked Under the Moon'', 1999), ''Hesus rebolusyunaryo (Jesus Revolutionary,'' 2002). Lav Diaz now lives between Manila and New York, and his work has always been stylistically coherent and emphasizes content rather than form, thus being a poet of the fate of humanity and the Philippine people.
''Venice, July 24, 2007''
| Contents |
| ''Filmography'' |
| 'Links/Readings:' |
''Filmography''
★ (''Serafin Geronimo: Kriminal ng Barrio Concepcion'') - Criminal of Barrio Concepcion, 1998
★ ''("Burger Boys")'' - 1999
★ (''Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan'') - Naked Under the Moon, 1999
★ (''Batang West Side'') - West Side Kid, 2002
''
★ ("Hesus Rebolusyunaryo"'') - Jesus, Revolutionary, 2002
★ (''Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino) - The Evolution of a Filipino Family''), 2004
★ ["Heremias (Unang Aklat: Ang Alamat ng Prinsesang Bayawak)]" - Heremias (Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess), 2006
★ ''("Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto")'' - Death in the Land of Encantos, 2007
___________________________________________________________________________
'Links/Readings:'
1. A Conversation with Lav Diaz
http://criticine.com/interview_article.php?id=21
2. A Chronicle from Lav Diaz
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/34/lav_diaz.html
3. Lav Diaz's ''Evolution of a Filipino Family''
http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/archives/000674.html
4. Heremias
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2006/11/heremias-2006.html
5. The Greatest Filipino Film of the Last 20 Years
http://www.xanga.com/filmangel/565857075/best-filipino-film-of-the-last-20-years.html
6. 11 hours in a life's cause
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/26/style/fam.php
7. A Rearrangement of a Troubled Landscape
http://www.ourownvoice.com/essays/essay2005e-6.shtml
8. An Introduction
http://cinepod.blogspot.com/2005/06/lav-diaz-introduction.html
9. The Most Important Filipino Filmmaker Today
http://cinematografica.wordpress.com/2007/05/05/lav-diaz/
10. Heremias
http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2006/11/heremias-lav-diaz-2006.html
11. Batang West Side
http://www.filmsasia.net/gpage74.html
12. Portrait of the Anguish as Filipino
http://www.isolacinema.org/_media/diaz_EKRAN_1.rtf.
13. Batang West Side: Diskurso ng Konsensiya
http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/articles.php?artcl_Id=85
14. A Quiet Revolution
http://www.firecracker-media.com/interviews/interview2001.shtml
15. Revolutions
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=2461&catid=110
16. Lights, Camera, Inaction
http://www.firecracker-media.com/features/feature1501.shtml
17. Paul Tanedo on the Making of Ebolusyon
http://www.ourownvoice.com/essays/essay2005e-7.shtml
18. Batang West Side
http://members.tripod.com/MANILAJC/batangwestside.htm.
19. Ebolusyon Reviews and Articles
http://www.ebolusyon.com/
20. The Festival with No Limits
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/05/35/rotterdam2005.html
21. Lav Diaz: Portrait of the Artist as a Filmmaker
http://www.pinoyfilm.com/lav-diaz-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-filmmaker
22. Heremias: A Different Cinematic Experience
http://igme.blogs.friendster.com/igme/2006/11/heremias_a_diff.html
23. Batang West Side
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~singbigo/batangwestside.html
24. Brocka and Diaz Retros in Torino
http://www.dmc.keio.ac.jp/en/review/torino_garcia1.html
25. Best Films of 2004
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=386891
26. Filipino Films in the Age of Deconstruction
http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/columns/MDE3Mg.html
27. Void in the Voices
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/07/42/vienna-iff-2006.html
28. Lav Diaz in Venice 2007
http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/
29. Closing Night Honors
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=79215
30. Hesus Rebolusyunaryo
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/07/hesus-rebolusyonaryo-2002.html
31. Homage to Lav Diaz
http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=lav+diaz&fr=yfp-t-465&u=oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/&w=lav+diaz&d=JxiYt-ljPNo2&icp=1&.intl=us
32. 'Death' in Toronto http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/news/e3i2a49dfc07d42653167877f06a3b1af23
33. TIFF News
http://blogto.com/film/2007/08/tight_race_for_artistic_innovation_award_at_tiff07/
34. Death in the land of Encantos/TIFF
http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?id=705141612361386
35. Venice Awaits Lav Diaz
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=85929
36. Venice Awaits Lav Diaz (Pt. 2 of interview)
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=86077
37. The Film is Long...
http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/08/30/the-film-is-long-very-long/
38. Death in the Land of Encantos
http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/cinema/en/77598.2.html
39. A German Article by Tilman Baumgärtel
http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=film-artikel&art=3776&id=film-artikel&cHash=cdc7c53fa7
40. A longer version of this interview in English
http://www.greencine.com/central/lavdiaz
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