Dateline: 03 July 2018, Ayala Museum, Makati City
It's the centenary of Philippine Cinema, and Ayala Museum hosted filmmaker-writer-educator Nick Deocampo for a series of talks on film by the genre. The last one was on the first week of July, about "Documentary: When God Writes the Script." I missed all of Professor Deocampo's talks.
But I was able to visit (more than once) an exhibition he curated, HIDDEN CINEMA: The Virtual Experience of Philippine Cinema's Centenary, presented by the Filipinas Heritage Library, Center for New Cinema, and Samsung, in partnership with the Film Development Council of the Philippines. Found on an event page promoted by the Ayala Museum:
After a hundred years of Philippine cinema being defined by the movie industry, this exhibition revolutionizes the idea of what constitutes Filipino film heritage — by looking at the country’s rhizomatic film culture, a network of interlacing cinematic forms and expressions older and more pervasive in kind than the industrial mainstream format. Imitating such diversity, films are identified in this exhibit according to their distinct cinematic forms. Thematically, each film genre is given an introduction that identifies its cinematic nature and the history it generates.The cinematic forms referred in this exhibition included the documentary, early cinema, experimental film, short film, independent cinema, student film, among others.
Film screenings at Greenbelt 3 MyCinema also accompanied the exhibition, and those too, I missed out. Cue: "Sayang" (Claire Dela Fuente)
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