AN INTERNATIONAL jury headed by American filmmaker Gregg Araki will decide the winner in the Venice Film Festival sidebar in which Lav Diaz’s “Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto” (”Death in the Land of Encantos”) is competing.
The rest of the jury in the Horizons (Orizzonti) section of the fest is composed of Frederick Wiseman, Hala Alabdalla Yakoub, Giorgia Fiorio and Ulrich Gregor. Horizons, which highlights trends in cutting-edge cinema, has two categories, Fiction and Documentaries. “Death…” by the Mindanao-born filmmaker is in the latter category.
The other entries include “Useless” by Chinese director Jia Zhangke who won the fest’s Golden Lion plum last year with “Still Life;”Man From Plains,” Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme’s look at former US president Jimmy Carter; and “Berlin,” Julian Schnabel’s concert docu on Lou Reed.
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This is very interesting since from what I’ve heard the film was shot at Padang,Legazpi City,a place recently devastated by lahar flows due to the torrential rains brought about by super-typhoon “Reming”! I live in Legazpi City and experienced first hand the death and devastation and the surreal deluge brought about by the storms!
The scene now at Padang is that of a wasteland and hence perfect location for a film on “kagadanan” or death!
While the film was being made Dante Perez,a visual artist based in Bicol and friend of Lav Diaz, told me stories of the develpment of the film. From his account Lav’s unique and indie roots in filmaking makes for a very interesting “Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga encanto” indeed!
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