Published on August 06, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. Modified on August 06, 2023 at 23:04.
In 2006, Lav Diaz won at the FIFF (Fribourg International Film Festival) the Special Prize of the International Jury for Heremias, an eight-hour film. That year, he also presented out of competition Evolution of a Filipino Family which stretched out over fourteen hours! The Filipino, who also works almost exclusively in black and white, told us this: “I use black and white because it allows us to perceive life, even if I speak of reality in another way. In the Philippines, we walk a lot from one village to another, our pace of life is rather slow. I can’t conceive of capturing our culture in a quick film. That’s why my films are slow, long… and you have to see them all at once! If you want to see my film, do it; if you don’t want to, too bad. I’m happy if ten people stay until the end. I use the cinema medium as Dostoyevsky used the book medium to talk about the Russian people.
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