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Subject: Contemporary Philippines Arts from the Region Module No.: 3

I. Title/ Subject Matter

Contemporary Performing Arts (The Art of Film: A Window to Different Worlds)
II. Learning Objectives / Learning Competencies
 Describe contemporary film in the Philippine regions
 Identify the contemporary filmmakers and determine their contributions to the development of
cinema; and
 Appreciate cinema guided by the Typology of Cinematic Forms
III. Discussion/ Lesson Proper
Brincatian, make a short prayer before you start.

The film industry is faced with a lot of challenges. From 1960s to the years after the fall of Marcos’s
regime, there was a lack of tax incentives that could have helped produce better films.

Film Production
A new breed of Filipino directors were brave enough to direct films that portrayed revolt, labor unionism,
social ostracism, and class division. These were Lino Brocka, Peque Gallaga, Ishmael Bernal, Celso Ad Castillo,
and Marilou Diaz Abaya.

Founded the organization concerned artists of the

Philippines (CAP), dedicated to helping artists
address issues confronting the country. In An example is his 1975 movie
filmmaking, he used “conventional love triangles, Maynila, Sa mga kuko ng
Lino Brocka rape, and violent action,” which revealed the Liwanag (Manila: In the Claws
suffering in Filipino life due to economic of Light).
exploitation through symbols and an elaborate
plot (Bordwell and Thompson 2010, 645).

Oro, Plata, Mata and the

Born in Manila and studied in Bacolod City. He famous Shake Rattle and Roll I,
Peque Gallaga
directed some award-winning films II, III, and IV and more than 20
other films.

Noted for his melodramas, particularly with

feminist and moral themes. He received the
Ishmael Bernal CMMA Best Director Award (1983), the Bronze Himala (1982)
Hugo Award in the Chicago International Film
Festival (1983)

Ang Pinakamandang Hayop sa

Celso Ad Castillo
Balat ng Lupa

Was a multi awarded film director and the founder

and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film
Marilou Diaz Abaya Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Her film Muro-Ami
Antipolo City.

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The Directors of the New Wave

The directors of the new wave either “tended toward exposing relevant social topics or hybridizing
Filipino topics with Western techniques” (David 1995, 1-2). Also called alternative filmmakers, these
directors yearned for more creative freedom in their works.

From the Cordillera Administrative Region, Eric de Guia, also known as Kidlat Tahimik, is famous
for his neocolonial films and his short documentaries such as Bubong! (Roofs of the World! Unite! 2006), in
which he travels the world and films its different roofs. The film Memories of Overdevelopment fulfills
Tahimik’s dream project about the first Filipino brought to Europe by Pigafetta to ever circumnavigate the
globe and is perpetually edited and restored.

Raymond Red was one of the first Filipino to receive a Rotterdam Hubert Bals Memorial grant and
the first for his short film Anino. He is also known for his super-8 films that explored the revolution against
the Spaniards through the perspective of Andres Bonifacio in his Bayani (1992) and the revolution against
the Americans through Macario Sakay’s eyes in Sakay (1993) (Del Mundo Jr. n.d., 118)

Nick De Ocampo, in his practice of nonfiction documentary films and short films, filmed
Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (1987), “a postmortem on the people power revolution of
1986,” and A Legacy of Violence (1990), which contributed “a view of the history of the country” (Del
Mundo Jr. n.d., 119).

Manny Reye’s satirical commentaries on provincial politics are seen in Suwapings (1994), a story of
a citizen’s rebellion against Barrio Talong’s coeeupt mayor whos plan was to dub a group of Filipino-
Americans as hometown heroes if they donate a huge amount of money to him.

In Maryo J. Delos Reyes’s Bamboo Flowers, the film production did not only require knowledge
and the skill in filmmaking, the director also had to understand the people of Bohol – their lives, beliefs,
and traditions, and their relationship with nature because the story revolves around man and nature.

Kita Kita is the highest-grossing Philippine independent film, garnering ₱320 million in the box
office and was selected by CNN as the best romantic comedy film in the last 25 years. The romantic
comedy was written and directed by Sigrid Andrea Bernardo (Quezon City), and starred Allessandra de
Rossi and Empoy Marquez.

Digital Media in the New Wave

With the coming of digital media in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a new wave in digital form
emerged. The high definition format came with the digital age and made it possible for Brillante Mendoza
to film Slingshot (2007), a “kinetic tale of tenement life and street hustlers, “in 11 days (Bordwell and
Thompson 2010, 646).

Brillante Mendoza’s Thy Womb is about the Tawi-Tawi husband Bangas-An (Bembol Roco) and
wife Shalela (Nora Aunor) who had to end their marriage because tradition has it that a man shoukd leave
his barren wife and take another one who can bear him a child.

Lav Diaz (ARMM. Datu Paglas, Maguindanao), the filmmaker known to “examine history from the
standpoint of the victims,” would shoot in very long takes, producing films with running times of over five
hours (Bordwell and Thompson 2010, 646).

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Commercial director Cholo Laurel of San Juan, Manila and a name for himself in the industry
through his first feature film Nasaan Ka Man (2005), which received awards such as Best in Story,
Screenplay, Picture, and Direction in 2005 from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and the Gawad
Tanglaw ng Lahi. The film features a love story in the midst of a family dwelling in secrets.

Also, from NCR, Marie Jamora filmed Ang Nawawala (What Isn’t There, 2012). It is a story of a
20-year-old man named Gibson who voluntarily stopped speaking when he was a child.

In Region 4A, Calabarzon, Gil Portes of Quezon Province is best known for Mga Munting Tinig
(2002), which recounts the story of a young, idealist, substitute teacher in a provincial public school.

Auraeus Solito, a filmmaker from Palawan, Region 4B, won 15 international awards, three of which
were awards at the Berlinale, for his Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo
Oliveros, 2005), a coming -of-age film about gay teen from the slums and his infatuation with a policeman,
which results in a conflict given his family’s illegal acts.

Alvin Yapan of Bicol, Region 5, won the New Breed category of his Debosyon (2013), a film about
the connection between love and faith.

From Bohol, Region 7, Maryo J. De los Reyes won the FAMAS award for his Magnifico (2003),
which tells the story of a little boy who brings light to an impoverished town. The different conflicts his
family members faced took a toll when his grandmother was diagnosed with stomach cancer and was at a
stage where it is already incurable. Dealing with the conflicts around him, including money problems, he
made it his goal a build a coffin for his grandmother.

The Use of Technology in Film

Young film directors use technology to create special effects in film. Erik Matti of Bacolod City,
Region 6, is the director of the first full-length Filipino film shot on green screen chroma-key that “mixes
elements of action, comedy, and horror in order to juxtapose the old sensibilities of the aswang legend with
contemporary style” (Soriano 2012). This film made heavy use of technology and the modern green screen.
Dondon Monteverde reveals that Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles was not an easy endeavor to undertake.

IV. Assessment / Activity

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V. Opinions, Questions, and Reflections

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