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Choices of Emotional Heft
Zig Dulay’s Bagahe is a film about choices – or lack thereof. It’s a story about Mercy, a Filipina who, out of econom…
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Smokescreens and the Snow Machine
“Flaherty arranged, for example, to film a walrus hunt in order to show how indigenous people once gathered food. The …
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A Tale of Two Cities: Pauwi Na and Paglipay
Screening as part of the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (August 16-22) this week are films from the first ToFarm Film Fes…
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The world is a brothel
In Area, we are presented with both irony and absurdity that has become commonplace both in the microcosmic space of …
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Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals and Sashimi: Cinema Verité and the Anxiety of Language
In Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals and Sashimi , the interference of translation may ultimately reveal an agenda, a slow cu…
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