The Transformative Cinema of Lav Diaz

Aesthetics, Resistance and Resilience

Corinne Maury, Olivier Zuchuat (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2026
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-485-6824-6 (ISBN)

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This collective work brings together contributions from academic researchers and film critics who offer analyses of the singular aesthetics of Filipino filmmaker, Lav Diaz's cinema.

The cinematographic work of Lav Diaz is steeped in the hopes and suffering of a people exposed to both state violence and the climatic cataclysms that regularly devastate the archipelago. A diary of the filming of Essential Truths of the Lake (2023), as well as previously unpublished interviews and masterclasses, take us to the heart of Lav Diaz's singular creative process, rooted in time and organically confronting places and their inhabitants. His characteristically lengthy films tie in with the destinies of opponents, of the marginalised and the disenfranchised. Confronting history and the tragic consequences of successive colonisations, encouraging resistance, reviving progressively forgotten animist practices, restoring the dignity of those who disappeared: Lav Diaz's cinematic frescoes stand up against silence, amnesia and repression.

This volume is perfect for students and scholars alike interested in Asian cinema, film critique and the work of Lav Diaz.

Corinne Maury is professor in film aesthetics at the Université de Poitiers. She has published Marcher au cinéma, lignes d'existences (2024), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles (2020), The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema (2022), L'Attrait de la pluie (2013), Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011). Her research focuses mainly on contemporary cinema (fiction and documentary), space in cinema (place, landscape, territory) and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Olivier Zuchuat is HES associate professor in the film department at HEAD - Geneva (HES-SO). A director and editor, his film credits include Djourou (2004), Far from the villages (2008), Like stone lions at the gateway into night (2013) and The Perimeter of Kamsé (2020), all of which were released in Europe. He published Attraits de la durée. Plans perdurant et montage intra-plan dans le cinema contemporain (2025) and co-edited the books Montage – Une anthologie (1913–2018) and Lav Diaz: faire face.

List of contributors ix

List of illustrations xi

1 Introduction 1

CORINNE MAURY AND OLIVIER ZUCHUAT

PART ONE

Violent stories, resurgent history 9

2 Lav Diaz, the possibility of a people? 11

GABRIEL BORTZMEYER

3 Allegoric forms of history in three films by Lav Diaz 23

SYLVIE ROLLET

4 About Servando Magdamag, Lino Brocka and melodrama.
A dialogue with Mac Alejandre and Ricardo Lee 35

5 The need for melodrama 40

CYRIL BÉGHIN

PART TWO

Devastated lands, ritualised lands 55

6 “There is no there there” 57

FABIENNE COSTA

7 The agony and the ecstasy: fragments of discussions between Lav Diaz and Alexander Tioseco on Death in the Land of Encantos 65

8 Existing in the aftermath: a lullaby to the sorrowful mystery and from what is before 74

MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ

9 On From What Is Before. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 88

10 A creature may hide another 92

PIERRE JAILLOUX

PART THREE

Wounds 105

11 Cruelty, perpetual undertow 107

CORINNE MAURY

12 Shooting Season of the Devil. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 118

13 Caring about the world 123

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE FERRARI

PART FOUR

Acts of creation 129

14 Facing the volcano. A production diary 131

OLIVIER ZUCHUAT

15 About Bazin. A conversation between Lav Diaz and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin 144

16 Unfolding, happening, arising. About Lav Diaz’s situation-shots 153

OLIVIER ZUCHUAT

Bibliography 165

Acknowledgements 169

Index 170

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Critical Asian Cinemas
Zusatzinfo	31 Halftones, black and white; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-485-6824-2 / 9048568242
ISBN-13	978-90-485-6824-6 / 9789048568246
Zustand	Neuware