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A House in Pieces: Documentary as piecing-together marginalized narratives of conflict
In 2015, a short documentary called Panicupan by Bagane Fiola and Keith Bacongco, about a small fishing compound in Pikit…
Age of Blight: Scenes from Asia under the pandemic
A filmmaker aims the camera at a mirror, we see him in a protective medical suit covered from head to toe. He adjusts the …
Representations of the Bangsa Moro in Philippine Cinema
This paper was presented during the Critical Islands Studies Conference, Ateneo de Manila University (2019). Gutierrez Ma…
Commentary
Filmmakers from the Philippine regions bond together
The thorny issue surrounding a health protocol that the Film Development Council of the Philippines, together with the He…
Review
Fading: A Review of Liryc dela Cruz's Notes of Unknown Maladies
Watching Liryc Dela Cruz’s slow cinema documentary Notes from Unknown Maladies (2018) is like watching a Lav Diaz film. T…
Announcement
Salamindanaw unveils 2020 plans
Salamindanaw Asian Film Festival will stage a special edition for 2020. The Festival has suspended its film competition t…
Review
Devouring the moon and drowning in its meaning
Markado: Bakunawa sa Duha ka-Managlahing Takna (The Moon Devourer) opens with the main protagonist, Sab (Jean Stefani Obs…
Safeguarding the moving images of Mindanao
Photo courtesy of Philippine Information Agency Mindanao cinema has grown exponentially in the last decade with its ma…
Lingua Franca: A trans-immigrant’s search for love and home
Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca continues the current trajectory in contemporary film that signals this forward shift …
Pride 2020
From bayot to mareng: Queer identities in films from the Philippine regions
Arnel Mardoquio's Ang Paglalakbay ng Mga Bituin Sa Gabing Madilim (2012) features a lesbian Tausug couple. The ad…
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