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Ano’ng nangyari…?
Bale itong post na ito ay tugon sa isang tanong mula sa curiouscat account ko ng isang anonymous. Ito yung tanong nya: “ano nangyari sa PH cinema? bakit nung 2nd golden age naman may maayos naman na lumabas na mga pelikula? ano sa tingin mo yung major factor bat nag regress yung quality after that…
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The Many Deaths of Lino Brocka
This year marks the 30th death anniversary of the nationalist filmmaker, Lino Brocka. Even after May 21, 1991, he’s been dying multiple deaths. Some may recall how Patrick Flores’ polemic against Brocka, incidentally published day after Brocka died sparked controversy as one which provoked later the extent of political criticism. Flores’ mistake however is merely…
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The Audience Problem and the Film-as-Art Ideology
Last night’s Sipat Film School’s roundtable on Piracy has turned into something else on the sidelines. Discussion over the classroom chat has turned towards the relatively old debate between “mainstream vs indie” and how it is the audience’s fault that more “relevant” films are not being appreciated. For long that I’ve been around cinephilia, or…
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General Notes On Film Piracy
For Ate Ligaya and the mighty pirates of Quiapo cinematheque who educated me about cinema more than any teachers can. Talks about Film Piracy have often been stumped by mere legalism. Ever since the beginnings of the internet, this has been the case, not just for cinema, but all the other objects that can…
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Para kay Chris (repost)
Itong post na to ay originally nasa Kawts Kamote. Published noong November 2, 2014. Bago tong araw na to, binalikan ko yung mga lumang post ng lumang blog. Naalala ko kasi si Chris Fajardo, isang kaibigan na wala na ngayon. Sa Titus Brandsma ko pa nakilala si Chris non, panahon na una pa lang akong…
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Kalat-kalat na Tala tungkol sa Piratahang Pilipino
Intended tong Blogpost na to sa pag-sagot ng partikular question sa CuriousCat: “ako lang ba o parang ang shit ng scene group dito sa pilipinas? kung di puro webrip, puro camrip. di rin nagrerelease ng raw release. walang 0-day. meron bang social implications bakit ganun?” Siguro magandang okasyon to para i-address ko na yung limitadong…
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The Aesthetics of Confinement
The title is misleading, or perhaps tautological. Essentially, aesthetics has always been dependent on a certain sense of confinement. Sensual experiences depend more on the space that surrounds us, not the ones we occupy. What we see in front of us, what our ears capture, what can be smelled from meters away, etc. Cinema, if…
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Non-Blind Items for a Safe Quarantine
Repeating some old ideas which still make sense, even today. Below are unorganized notes of thoughts I’ve been trying to organize for days now. It still came up unorganized and I apologize for it. Honorary fathers are often times weird. Especially, Godfathers. Bourgeois history is often concerned with founders, or, Godfathers. Whether or not the…
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Theses on Terrorist Cinema
The greatest invention of the 21st century is not the iPhone, but the terrorist. Of course, the “terrorist” as a concept has been around for a long time. But it is only recently that terrorism has been translated materially (as an ideological apparatus). Terrorism is a discourse of the state. Terrorism as an ideology necessarily…
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Film and Ideology
This note is something I used for my culminating lecture on an Introduction to Film subject I handled last semester. I apologize for the lack of citation, but I have noted from who does the ideas I mentioned came from. The semester started by looking into the Feature-Length Film as our object of study, with…