Shorts by Lav Diaz, a Visions/Panawin screening

A “Lav Diaz Short” may sound like an oxymoron for worldwide admirers of the Filipino master writer/director, better known for his feature films that run as long as 11 hours.  Panawin/Visions presents an opportunity to explore another facet of the artist’s prolific output with this program of his short films, with running times from 40 minutes to as brief as 2.   As with his more known feature films, the shorts find him pushing the boundaries of cinematic form while exploring themes of collective trauma, expiation, and transcendence.

The program includes: Butterflies Have No Memories, Himala: A Dialectic of Our Times, Prologue to The Great Desaparecido, The Boy Who Chose the Earth, The Day Before the End, and The Firefly.