Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon – From What is Before
Lav Diaz – Philippinen 2014 – 338 Min.
B+K: Lav Diaz – S: Lav Diaz, Che Villanueva – T: Mark Locsin – P: sine olivia pilipinas
Mit Perry Dizon, Roeder Camañag, Hazel Orencio, Angelina Kanapi u.a.
Digital – Tagalog
German Premiere
Grand Prix, World Premieres Film Festival 2014
Goldener Leopard, Locarno 2014
Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Military operations are becoming common. Brutal militias rule the countryside. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
Greater cinema fulfills one of its promises—that of reclaiming the Malay Philippines’ provenance. Banished traditions and practices of the pre-Hispanic and pre-Islamic periods are resurrected and immortalized. Loosely based on real events and characters, the film examines how an individual and collective psyche responds to extreme and mysterious changes in social and physical environment.
The title of the film is from the Latin phrase “a priori”, used in Western philosophy as knowledge independent of all particular experiences, an argument/justification on the essentiality of truth that is easily gleaned even without empirical evidence. – Lav Diaz
Sonntag 12.10. 18:30 Uhr Filmmuseum
Lav Diaz was born in 1958 in Cotabato, Mindanao (Southern Philippines). He graduated in economics with a degree. Before venturing into making feature films he made some short films and documentaries. Since 1993, Lav Diaz has lived in Queens, New York City, with his family.
Films (selection): Batang West Side 2002 – Evolution of a Filipino Family (1. UX) 2004 –Heremias 2006 – Melancholia 2008 – Butterflies have no Memories 2009 (5. UX) – Norte, The End of the History 2013 (8. UX) – From What is Before 2014