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Raya Martin’s Monographs video essay addresses the fraught history of Philippine cinema. In A Short Film About the Indio Nacional, he cleverly uses the aesthetics of silent film to depict the bloody emergence of the Philippines from colonial rule in the 1890s. After a prologue in color—in which a husband tells his sleepless wife a story from his childhood—we find ourselves in the black and white world reminiscent of early ethnographic film, following the stories of three indigenous people (known as Indios in the Philippines) as their lives are transformed by war. (Dir.: Raya Martin, Philippines, 2005, 96 min., Tagalog with English subtitles) Images courtesy of Raya Martin |
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