Sine ni Lav Diaz: A Long Take on the Filipino Auteur

This collection of essays explores the life and work of Lav Diaz,a Filipino filmmaker known for his long and slow films that often explore themes of history,memory,and identity. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of Diaz's films,including his early works,which were influenced by the New Wave and the French New Wave,and his later films,which are more experimental and abstract.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 22 November 2021
Publisher: Intellect Books

This original collection fills a significant gap in the literature on Lav Diaz,and more broadly,on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director in contemporary world cinema is beyond doubt.  This collection considers Lav Diaz and his works holistically without being confined to a specific approach or research method. On the contrary,it involves almost all the major contemporary academic approaches to cinema. It focuses on an auteur who has been celebrated immensely in recent times and yet has remained largely unexplored in cinema studies. The book will address this research gap. As such,this book aims to situate Diaz at the crucial juncture of ‘new auteurism,Filipino New Wave and transnational cinema,but it does not neglect the industrial–exhibitional coordinates of his cinema. The rationale behind this project is to raise questions on the oeuvre of a significant auteur,to situate him in and outside of his immediate national context(s),to present a repository of critical approaches on him,to reconsider the existing critical positions on him,to find newer avenues to enter (and exit) his canon that will consciously avoid the time-worn rhetoric of long take and slowness of the proverbial ‘slow cinema camp and to find corridors in him that will lead to informed ways of reaching other movements/auteurs in other times,other places. It explores various other aspects of Diaz and his cinema whose notoriety,the editors believe,should not rely solely on its incredible running time. The collection looks at Diaz from the perspectives of a national and a transnational critic – one of the two editors is from the Philippines,the other from another Asian location. It concentrates both on the spatial and the temporal,to place him within the intricacies of the culture a.

This original collection fills a significant gap in the literature on Lav Diaz,and more broadly,on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director in contemporary world cinema is beyond doubt.  This collection considers Lav Diaz and his works holistically without being confined to a specific approach or research method. On the contrary

On the contrary,it involves almost all the major contemporary academic approaches to cinema. It focuses on an auteur who has been celebrated immensely in recent times and yet has remained largely unexplored in cinema studies. The book will address this research gap.

As such,this book aims to situate Diaz at the crucial juncture of ‘new auteurism,Filipino New Wave and transnational cinema,but it does not neglect the industrial–exhibitional coordinates of his cinema. The rationale behind this project is to raise questions on the oeuvre of a significant auteur,to situate him in and outside of his immediate national context(s),to present a repository of critical approaches on him,to reconsider the existing critical positions on him,to find newer avenues to enter (and exit) his canon that will consciously avoid the time-worn rhetoric of long take and slowness of the proverbial ‘slow cinema camp and to find corridors in him that will lead to informed ways of reaching other movements/auteurs in other times,other places.

It explores various other aspects of Diaz and his cinema whose notoriety,the editors believe,should not rely solely on its incredible running time. The collection looks at Diaz from the perspectives of a national and a transnational critic – one of the two editors is from the Philippines,the other from another Asian location. It concentrates both on the spatial and the temporal,to place him within the intricacies of the culture a.

Weight: 436g
Dimension: 170 x 245 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789384246