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Bookmark or Share- Lav Diaz: “Art is a commitment to the beauty of the soul” - BFILav Diaz: “Art is a commitment to the beauty of the soul”. The Filipino director of rich and often extraordinarily long films is busier than ever. He talks about his spiritual approach to filmmaking, which helps him follow a thread through a story, whether the shoot lasts several years or just two weeks. 18 May 2017.
- Portrait of an Artist: Lav Diaz | Arts | The Harvard CrimsonLav Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker whose works primarily focus on contemporary social and political issues and their relations with the individual. He has won the Golden Lion at...
- Meet Lav Diaz, The Director Who Makes 647-Minute Long Movies - /FilmLav Diaz has made 27 feature films as a director, and at least eight of them are over five hours long, with his 2004 film "Evolution of a Filipino Family" running 647 minutes, one...
- An Ideal Patience: On Lav Diaz and From What Is BeforeDiaz has invented a counter-novelistic method of narration for himself, uniquely cinematic. In his films, at issue in every scene is the fact that the relevance to any story of a passage of real time open to observation always has to be abstracted from an inexhaustible formlessness.
- Time Regained: The Films of Lav Diaz - Film at Lincoln CenterAt their best, Lav Diaz’s films reveal just how much others leave out. Their protean beauty and moral complexities are matched only by their heroic running times: six hours is a common length, nine hours to be expected.
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