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Director

Lav Diaz

Philippines · Columbio

The poet of duration and displacement. His films are acts of endurance — slow, digressive, hypnotic — that refuse the grammar of commercial cinema entirely. Time itself becomes the subject, and waiting becomes a form of grace.

Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' taught me to trust in the power of the image and the duration, and these are principles I apply to my films, like 'Norte'.

On Stalker  ·  MUBI Notebook: 'Locarno 2014: Lav Diaz's Norte, The End of History'