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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">By: JONATHAN
CATUNAO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Realistic family
bonding scenes, great performances and successful build-up of suspense resulted
to an emotional discourse on extra-judicial killings. Excessive melodrama pushes
it to the edges of soap opera; but from the get-go the horrors of summary
executions have been pierced into the heart of its audience. And the sense of
desperation remain embedded long after the last swollen-eyed moviegoer has left
the cinema house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Rating: 4 / 5</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145892588654848366.post-64539700981953893532016-12-28T23:40:00.000-08:002016-12-28T23:40:19.946-08:00A REVIEW: KABISERA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">By VIC SEVILLA </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">While it is true
that Nora Aunor has mastered the art of suffering in films, her latest outing
as Mercy de Dios in “Kabisera” adds a new dimension to her trademark evocation
of misery. In a film about a widow’s fight to find justice for her slain
husband and son, Aunor’s Mercy is not a hapless victim. Here, she fights back,
not in blind anger, but in a way that’s righteous, persistent and quiet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">She abides by the
law in seeking justice for her loved ones even if it’s law enforcers that
brought about the tragedy in her family. She diligently follows the directions
of grandstanding public officials to the letter in the hopes of somehow finding
new leads into her husband’s death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What makes the
dramatic scenes in “Kabisera” effective is the director’s restrained manner in
showing anger and grief. There are really no big scenes here – no sermon at the
mount, no splashing of boiling water on the tormentor’s face, no lengthy
dialogues that end in face slapping. Here, Aunor kept her emotions in check to
portray grief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Personally, her
most outstanding moment in the film include the court scene where she narrates
her husband’s gruesome murder and her telephone conversation with her fugitive
son. Quietly, Aunor simply lets her emotions flow without turning the scene
into a big and lavish display of emotional fireworks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Equally touching
was the scene where Mercy offers a bag of “puto” (rice cakes) to her attorney
(Victor Neri) and to the head of the Human Rights Commission (played
brilliantly by Ces Quesada). In this simple scene, Aunor shows her mastery of
underacting. Her face shows the desperation of someone who seeks justice, but
her actions show calmness. Here, Mercy shows how to plead with dignity and
honor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The effect is
astounding – watching her in those scenes is like watching the news where
victims narrate their tragedy: without fanfare, without drama but just telling
their tales of horror and grief in a way that’s true and raw. Aunor’s scenes
are painful to watch only because her portrayal of loss is simple and too real.
Apparently, Aunor’s experiences in indie filmmaking has honed her into a finer
artist – one who does not rely on big scenes and staged circumstances to create
electricity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What makes
“Kabisera” timely and significant is that it never points an accusing finger at
any entity. Unlike many of the politicians who love to grandstand and proclaim
themselves as heroes and champions of human rights, “Kabisera” is quiet in its
portrayal of loss, grief, and the arduous road to attain justice.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">https://web.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154374742953802&set=a.10150408905233802.367000.717513801&type=3&theater</span></i></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145892588654848366.post-78559975459875859132016-11-29T03:06:00.000-08:002016-11-29T03:24:50.959-08:00KABISERA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Director: </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Arturo San Agustin
and Real Florido</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cast: </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nora Aunor, Ricky
Davao, JC de Vera, Jason Abalos, Victor Neri, Perla Bautista, Ces Quesada, RJ
Agustin, Ronwaldo Martin, and Kiko Matos</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Production Company:
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Silver Story
Entertainment and Fire Starters Manila Production Co.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"This
socio-political drama unfolds as a quietly powerful and gripping story of a
tightly-knit family coming to grips with abusive elements of Philippine
society, specifically the hooded perpetrators of extra-judicial killings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Taking issue with human rights violations
doesn’t only serve the film as fine advocacy for its relevant and timely choice
of theme, but also subtly reveals various other concerns imbedded in the thread
of conflicts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A sure, steady directorial hand, conscientious
script and effective cinematography are matched by the lead actors’ faultless
performances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This taut and tragic drama will disturb
viewers with its stark chronology of what confronts us daily in an often
oppressive urban milieu, with the final imagery delivering a subtle footnote to
our awareness of the proper place of vaunted justice in our society."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- Jocelyn Dimaculangan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Source:</span></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.pep.ph/guide/mmff/25075/mmff-2016-predicted-to-be-renaissance-in-philippine-cinema#rseAJCefpvrP0mZB.99</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.pep.ph/guide/mmff/25075/mmff-2016-predicted-to-be-renaissance-in-philippine-cinema?ref=home_feed_1</span></i></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145892588654848366.post-9378257834583888282016-11-04T05:08:00.000-07:002016-11-04T05:08:32.689-07:00Digitally Restored TATLONG TAONG WALANG DIYOS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The digitally
restored and remastered TATLONG TAONG WALANG DIYOS will premiere at Cinema One
Originals this November 15 at Trinoma!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stay tuned for
announcements on how to get a chance to watch the premiere of this 1976
classic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Abs - Cbn Film
Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">https://web.facebook.com/filmrestorationabscbn/photos/a.500548003422249.1073741830.499822456828137/953074471502931/?type=3&theater<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145892588654848366.post-67330956108361103742016-10-20T02:06:00.000-07:002016-10-20T02:06:57.315-07:00Review: HINULID<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">By: Ronz Maceda<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Hinulid” is a
visceral-cerebral-visual trifecta. Framed by ruminations on faith, science,
lore and politics, it bleeds with a rare parental love that is more formidable
than life and death combined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(The film made me
contemplate, smile, cry…and cry again.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Kristian Cordero,
only on his second outing as a filmmaker, deftly utilizes the poetic time mode
to breathe pathos and philosophies into his complex, non-linear storytelling: a
eulogy on a mother and child’s unbreakable bond that intersects a
deconstruction of an old Bikol legend as a socio-political commentary. Or vice
versa?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(As part-Bicolano
myself--my late beloved father hailed from Daraga--I encourage Mr. Cordero to
further his cinematic exploration of Bikol myths, local color and latter-day
realities.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nora Aunor
exhibits pain-- her rawest and most real to date--that is multiplied three
times or more. And that sturdiest love of all, eloquently communicated by her
facial and body language, is magnified many fold. Hearing the artist speak in
her native Rinconada is akin to hearing her crooning live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Commendable is
Jess Mendoza for his affecting yet still unaffected performance. Memorable,
too, are the Bicol-based actors: the old priest, the blind caretaker, the two
young Lucases and the school administrator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Clocking more than
150 minutes, “Hinulid” is rife with phantasmagoria, repetitive and hard to
fathom at some point. Perhaps, it can stand some editing; add some trimming of
the fat in the screenplay, without minimizing its scope and impact. Meanwhile,
the music, special effects and cinematography are done well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some may quibble
that “Hinulid” is a film that does not want or know how to end. But they ought
to ask themselves: does a mother’s love and grief for her child, living or
dead, ever end?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(PS. They say that
"Hinulid" is a homecoming project for La Aunor. To our literati and
film-literate Noranian kabsat overseas like Wilfredo, Mykeo and Jojo, this film
is a homecoming for all of you as well.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145892588654848366.post-50792038469629085562016-10-20T01:24:00.000-07:002016-10-20T01:24:45.671-07:00QCinema 2016: HINULID<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There's a certain
kind of lyricality in the interconnected scenes of Kristian Cordero's Hinulid;
with its non-linear, almost abstract narrative, the work feels more like a poem
than a film. Collectively, its themes limn a cinematic pieta, a mother
searching her memories for the meaning behind her son's seemingly meaningless
death. These memories are interspersed with religious iconography, treatises on
law, justice, and flashbacks. The film ends up loosely constructed as a result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shines among her fellow actors, giving us a spectrum of emotions, at times
impenetrable, at times vulnerable. It's always a treat to see her in action,
although without an equally formidable foil her co-actors pale in comparison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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poetry holds for most of the running time, the work starts to crumble under its
own weight during the last half hour, as it tries to tackle too many things.
During this period we see several scenes where the film could have ended
perfectly, but didn't. The end result proves exhausting as the film tries to
include as much as it can into an already full package.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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film's poetry cannot be denied, and certain scenes prove mesmerizing. Parts of
Hinulid can be quite challenging, but the rewards may be worth it in the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Hinulid" mean to me? Life is a slow, breezy but sometimes painful journey
(train) that transports us to the different worlds of facts (science) and
imagination (poetry), the deceit and domination of evil (pretentious school
officials, brutal military men, hideous frat men}, and the promise of eternal
life (religion/ theology). Only by having lived a good life exemplified by Sita
and her son will guarantee us the blessed justice we are hoping for ( stars and
fireflies). Real justice can never be experienced here which was denied of Sita
and her son. It is only by having lived a faith-filled life like Sita ( her
memories , good deeds, and tremendous love for her lone son) will make us
resign to the divine will and will lead us to a consoling death ( La Muerte).
Only in heaven can we really experience the perfect justice (Three Images of
The Dead Christ) which was denied of us here on earth! How blessed are those
who hunger for justice, for they shall be filled!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It did not seem
possible at first, but barely had we reeled from her mystical and metaphorical
film "Tuos," Ms. Nora Aunor is back with a film even MORE mystical
and metaphorical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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very religious Catholic woman who lived in Naga with her one son named Lukas.
As a young boy, Lukas was very close to their parish priest, memorizing all his
catechism and prayers. As a young man though, he chose to take up Law in Manila
instead, memorizing his jurisprudence textbooks. One day, he joined a political
rally and was killed. Sita went to recover her son's remains and rode a train
to bring him back to their hometown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Such, simply put,
was the bare bones of the story. However, what we saw on that big screen was a
complex masterpiece of abstract film art draped on this framework. Nothing was
simple about this film, everything seemed on an otherworldly plane, only
occasionally resting on solid ground for us to get our bearings straight. The
whole film felt like a vivid dream floating in the subconscious of a mother
struggling to deal with the death of her only beloved son. The imagery may be
whimsical (like the multitude of fireflies, the falling stars, the solitary
islet), or disturbing (like the rape of banana trunks, the unspooled cassette
tapes, the three dead Christs floating down the river) -- either way they are
open to any form of interpretation by the viewer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Spoken in Ms.
Aunor's native Bikol language, the whole script by director Kristian Sendon
Cordero was written like poetry, if I were to gauge the words as translated in
the subtitles. It sounded like poetry the way the lines were delivered, very
deliberate and measured. Nothing it seems sounded like regular daily
conversation, even those shared over a meal or a drink -- between mother and
son, between two lovers, between mentor and student. There was never a shallow
line, as everything seemed to have a deeper meaning. It waxed philosophically
about various topics ranging from legends, religion, astronomy, discipline,
mathematics and death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ms. Nora Aunor of
course felt so right in her present element -- the independent film milieu --
where she can delve into the grittiest, most esoteric and most ethereal subject
matters unexplored by mainstream cinema. The three actors (portraying Lukas as
a precocious boy, as a curious teenager and as a studious law student) on whom
she shared her maternal wisdom all did well. In particular, Jess Mendoza, who
played Lukas as a young adult, held his own against the Master herself. He was
charming and sincere in his performance, you will certainly feel why his mother
is suffering so much after he left her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I do not claim to
fully understand everything in this beautifully-shot yet thematically profound
film. It was extraordinary in the enigmatic delivery of its message. The
storytelling style of Cordero was not linear by any means. I sense he may be
going for Terrence Malick's style, ala "The Tree of Life". The film
flashed back and forward and sideways, at times unmindful of conventional
logic, as it melded reality with fantasy, memory and imagination. The final
product was entrancing in its overreaching intentions, although admittedly
there were times when its sheer depth and emotional heft could get too heavy
for the audience to bear. 8/10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is to enter a mystical otherworld, or so it seems. The film by Bicolano
director Kristian Sendon Cordero is based on the short story “The Night Express
Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” from “Nagueos” by fellow Bicolano Carlos Ojeda
Aureus. Both of them are Palanca literary awardees as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is to experience a visual poem--and experience you do. This writer is a
self-confessed admirer of Nora Aunor’s acting talent. But, and without
diminishing the Superstar’s role, this film is more than a movie that stars
Aunor. It is a work of art in visuals and in screenplay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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That it is completely immersed and steeped in the Bicolano sphere is not only
obvious in the language--using Bicol Rinconada, but also in its steadfast Roman
Catholic religiosity. To say that the story is about Sita (Aunor), an OFW and
single mother who comes home to Bicol to find her son Lukas (Jess Mendoza) and
lay his ashes to rest, is to chip only at one layer of the narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the film employs non-linear storytelling. It goes inside the mind of Sita
as she sits in a train from Metro Manila to Bicol, the night express, to access
her memories and thoughts. Cordero himself has pointed out that one of the
themes is the more enduring power of memory over justice, in this case, the
musings of Sita skip from one point in Lukas‘ life to another--mimicking how
people remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FOLKLORE. The film starts out with a folk tale, a local one, of the Tandayag,
which is a primordial and celestial element that is given the characteristics
of a mother, who has a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are the “Tolong Hinulid”, three statues of the dead Christ who, according to
ancient belief, were discovered floating in a river in Bicol, and have been
charged under the care of the people there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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folk figure almost synonymous to death. But unlike the more popular
personification of “Kamatayan”, she is not sinister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The film tackles
the day to day, side by side existence of religious fervor with folk
beliefs--yet not subjugating one with the other. The blind village shaman and
seer is as much a respected and revered figure as the learned parish priest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">MULTIPLE LAYERS,
THEMES. As it is set in 1999, it tackles the impending doom and dread over the
coming new millennium. Yet, the film is not constrained by timeframe, as it
also tackles stories and histories that happened before Sita’s life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thinking and the law alongside folk religiosity and faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lofty convictions that drive militant groups and excuses of brotherhood that
fuel violence in fraternities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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delves into issues of religious orders among each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is in its
philosophizing and poetry that the film excels. When it delves into day to day
chatter, it becomes weighed down by the mundane. Then, it becomes a chore to pay
attention. There is a popular quote that says: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you
miss, you'll land among stars.” There is a lofty aspiration here and the film
certainly packs in many themes and meanings. But the film’s strengths lie in
the visuals and in the wordless acting that is heavy with emotion and meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">STRENGTH IN
VISUALS. Even beyond being played out in another language from the mainstream
used in film and popular media, Cordero tells the story in visual clues and
blocks of anecdotes, with the audience depending on Sita’s memories, while also
calling into question what is real and what is imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The visuals are
dramatic, may shots are visual poetry created with Director of Photography
Boyet Abrenica, aside from capturing the natural environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This writer found
three among several scenes noteworthy. One is part of the early montage, from
above, the audience looks down to see three floating bodies on the water and a
banca coming in to meet them. Another is the most powerful scene between a man
and three bamboo tree trunks, weighed down by politics and power. Third, is
Nora Aunor’s only scene where she lets out the combination of fear, anger, and
desperation (among others) in a long but silent scream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The animation in
the film increases its mystical quality. It also binds together the folk
element of the shooting star to the science in astrology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cordero’s opus
recalls Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire and
several works by American David Lynch, as well as Filipino indie film maverick
Kidlat Tahimik’s Turumba. Yet, it inhabits its own space, like a mystical
forest that we stumble upon Bicol or in the memories of those who know it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Visually
satisfying and sometimes uncomfortable, Hinulid (The Sorrows of Sita) is in the
Circle Competition of QCinema 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the official entries of the 2016 QCinema International Film Festival running
until October 22 in Gateway, Robinsons Galleria, Trinoma, and UP Town Center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">AN old song is
recited, and it pleads with all the torment of love: “Sa aldaw, sa banggi, di
ka malingwan pa [At day, at night, you will not be forgotten].” It is the voice
of Nora Aunor, the timbre recognizable all over this nation. The voice continues: “Mga inagrangay idulot
mo sa Diyos [All your torment you offer to God].” It is a love song that fuses
religion and sensuality, coming from a region where faith flows in the narrow
strait of the mythical and the real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They come in
threes. The Three Dead Christ, real in the town of Gainza, is shown being
worshipped by devotees. Three corpses float, disturbing in the velvet garb of
the Christ. Three woman are raped and three men—triplets—are tortured. Men and
woman violated are transformed into banana stalks, a belief that is common
among Bikolanos and their tales of enchantment. Against the verdant field is
seen the statue of Death, a skeleton dressed in red velvet, an icon in the land
of icons. The woman who pulls Death is also the woman who appears and reappears
with the icon of Death and, in unexpected places, is seen before an old sewing
machine finishing something that can never be finished. Death is there but
separate, the healer explains. A song of lament is sung by a male choir, the
phrasing unique because the singers are from Buhi, the Bikol language which is
marked separate from the other Bikol languages. The non-Bikolano need not know
this but for the Bikolano audience, a crisis has been averted in the film: the
actors have been allowed to use their own “first” Bikol language. Nora herself
uses her Rinconada language from Iriga. Raffi Banzuela, who plays the priest,
speaks his own Camalig-Albay Bikol. (The mother tongue expert should watch this
film.) Against all this, a train seemingly with a life of its own navigates the
marshland and meadows of the land called Kabikolan, on a trip with no beginning
and with no end. Like memory. Like the endless violence that wracks this land.
Images and images, with tension created between some of them, with meanings
apparent in many of them, abound in this film called Hinulid. The title, which
literally means “laid to rest”, refers first to the three images of the Dead
Christ, unique and aberrant. But the title could also mean the grief that comes
with Death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nothing is laid to
rest, however, in Hinulid. By the fact that the people have made three statues
resurrects the Tres Persona Solo Dios (Three Persons in OneGod), a system of
belief prevalent in mountain cults. Nothing, indeed, is finished and resolved
in Hinulid. It’s on this that the poetry of the film soars and takes us on a
journey that works of great art are able to do. Instead of being diminished by the absence of
resolution, the film, in fact, produces a discourse that is politically
realistic out of scenes and events that are magical, mythical and full of
marvel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But if we notice
and are touched by the poesy in the film, it is because there are prosaic
moments. These are the realistic moments when we see Sita talking with the
school authorities and the character of Lucas is evaluated. If not for the
consistency in the presentation, where Sita is almost an audience, not engaging
the other characters, the scenes would have weakened the film. As it is, some
of the scenes that are devoid of the poetry appear to stop the mind travel. The
audience, thus, waits for the train, and when it does pass—because it never
arrives—we are enthralled by the seemingly boundless procession of personages
and personifications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Those who compose
the local cast don’t disappoint. One can’t imagine it is their first time to
appear before a camera for a film, and without the benefit of a workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Night Express
Does Not Stop Here Anymore is the title of the fiction written by Carlos Ojeda
Aureus, which, according to Kristian Sendon Cordero, the director, inspired the
film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The train is the
magical motif that rumbles across the screen, connecting sorrow with rage, loss
and recovery, justice and disorder. As this train moves, a story is told about
a mother who comes home to bring her son to rest in peace. But this is merely
no coming home, and this is merely not a train. It is the land where mountains
come alive and where distant islands are monsters that fell as stars from the
sky. The train knows it and Sita, the keeper of the urn of memory and justice,
is also the keeper of the tale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Predictable as it
may seem, the coming of the train at every turn of the film, something inside
that train is not within our control. The film offers us the interior of the
train, the inner workings of remembrance. For inside the train is Sita and her
son Lucas, appearing bodily beside her at different junctures of youth—at 9
years of age, at 15, at 25. Each appearance brings us the life of Sita with the
son. Terrific and terrifying is the image of Sita carrying the urn with the
ashes of Lucas, while Lucas sits there beside his mother. The proximity of life to death, or the lack of difference
between Life and Death, is the message of the film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We know where the
journey is going when, at last, the older Lucas now appears beside Sita.
Tender, yet horrifying, is this moment, with Lucas grabbing a kiss from his mom
who does not, of course, feel it. But we feel it, this love that cuts across
space and time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As the older
Lucas, Jess Mendoza has reached a maturity, the rawness of which was already
greatly visible in his first film, The Natural Phenomenon of Madness. With a
masculine charm not present in our crop of actors, Mendoza rightfully claims
that space with Sita, as played by Aunor. Mendoza is the rightful object of
Sita’s memories, with a face that seems to be of the Past and now glows because
it is part of another world, not distant but not anymore within grasp. Mendoza
has a presence that hovers. We can watch him over and over again because he
makes eternity possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Aunor as Sita, as
the one who remembers, makes everything possible. She helps us endure the long
travel in the train, because we believe in her character. Leitmotifs are
literary tricks and they can be tricky but with Aunor as the mind that recurs
and connects the points in the cosmos, the return to the train turns into an
act so magnificently compelling. Each time the train comes in all splendid
angles, we look forward to being there with Aunor as Sita. Each time we are
with her, we see a different face, a different emotion. We see her silent but
with rage somewhere in that frail body. We see her smiling through the tears as
the landscape moves outside the window. We see her in darkness. We see her
standing, as if burdened by all kinds of loneliness. We see her tired, with
memories about to fade. Then we see her again, recoiling, grabbing from the
night the thoughts of her son, and her mother’s love. The night train could go
on because the mind of Aunor, as Sita, makes visible the invisible. Toward the
end, Lucas seen and unseen, felt and unfelt, longingly moves Sita toward him,
telling his mother to rest because the night will be long. The camera crawls toward
Aunor. As her eyes begin to close, sadness and joy and aloneness and anger flit
back and forth, nuances of emotions painted in hues. Then rage and love,
frustration and fulfillment, even sleep and death and all the multitude of
contradictions, begin to be etched in that old face, growing older each second,
aging because the land is ancient as only Aunor—as Sita, as Mother Incarnate,
as Life facing Death—could summon to obey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is said that
Aunor mockingly sighed as she watched the rushes and said: “I am old.” She has,
indeed, grown old in this film, a testament to her dedication to the craft. But
more that, she has, in Hinulid, became an even greater actor, if such were
still possible with an actor who has already been hailed as the greatest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cordero can heave
a sigh now. He has completed a film that he thought, like the train journey,
could never come to a stop. An awarded poet, Cordero has brought his keen
confidence in what words can do to this film. His use of voiceover has brought
the old device into a different dimension. Jesus Volante is the voice behind
those lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But don’t ever
think that Cordero is saying memories could heal. Memory is more powerful than
justice and, in some of the words of the healer, memory also serves a great warning.
The romantic in Cordero, however, remains: in the sublime and highly textured
cinematography, in a grand animation done by animators from Ateneo de Naga,
meteors fall and light up the sky behind the sacred mountain. The train blazes
with the fire of a thousand fireflies and resumes its journey through mythical
time, where mothers can never forget their sons, where villages will not be
ignorant of the politics of violence, where numbers rule our destiny because
sons are murdered and we turn to memory for justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There is of course
very little room for a Valeran edifice to be erected right in the middle of
Pasacao's quiet waves, nor the rolling hills of Camarines Sur's middle earth,
but we identify the Pantoned-down story of costumes in this poetic film
starring the Superstar from Iriga(a city known for ostentatious beading on
gowns, but that isn't where our seams are heading). First, coccooned in the
sorrows of a widow's blouse, embroidered to the hilt with detailed lace cut outs
on sleeves as she looks up to Lukas' trifecta of ghosts, we note that this is
the film's key piece: quiet blossoms against a background of sadness. Her dewy
nape, what with the heat of the Pacific sun, informs us that this piece of
clothing was not purchased elsewhere but the segunda mano stores lining the
streets of nineties Naga. We are then taken to canaries and taupes and faded
maizes in outgrown tailoring to remind us of the thinly-veiled intricacies of
provincial life--something that registered on her face everytime a collar tip
falls on the wrong place on her neck, with her hair slightly curling up when
they tough the fabric. And then the high, torrential contrast of chiffon veils
and velvetine religious tailoring on macabre statuettes against a backdrop of
meadows and hills and ricefields would precipitate into post-colonial
discourse, to an indefinite return. "Hinulid" as a film did not in
any way insinuate the musings of a Coleen Atwood nor the accessories of a
Patricia Field, but it sang a song only the old-schooled seamstresses can
sing--that of a sewing machine relentlessly roaring into the night--hauntingly
beautiful, provincially grand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145892588654848366.post-14731306209524777402016-10-18T05:32:00.000-07:002016-10-18T05:32:17.774-07:00HINULID<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Report: QCinema International Film Festival 2016 (Part 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hinulid stars Nora Aunor as a woman bringing the ashes of her recently murdered
son back to a small village in Bicol where truth and myth seem inseparable.
Throughout her long train ride through the darkness, past and present mix
freely, her memories breaking through the shroud of her present reality as she
tries to come to grips with the pain that she’s feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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immediately establishes a very poetic tone. The opening scenes introduce motifs
that will run through the entire movie. There’s clearly been a lot of thought
put into all of this, but the end product is kind of a real slog. My good will
for this film ran out about forty-five minutes in. At that point, it felt like
the film was just throwing in one abstraction after the next, putting way too
much stock in the power of its symbols. One can’t fault the film for its
ambition. The scope of what it’s trying to cover is certainly admirable; the
story touching on grand themes that study the intersection between faith and
myth and culture and the ways that all three can be suppressed. But the back
half of this film just becomes exhausting, offering so little to hold on to.
And the thing is, the film is really good in its simplest scenes. The most
affecting scene, for my money, is a very low-key sequence where the main
character is playing a game of shooting stars by herself, her son no longer
there to play with her. That one scene speaks more eloquently about the emotion
of this story than the rest of the film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">By: MARNE KILATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the Gala Screening of Kristian Sendon Cordero’s “Hinulid.” I must put down a
few notes before I turn in for the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There is a
pleasant irony in watching one of the saddest, most elegiac movie I’ve seen in
years, and starring the reigning drama queen of Philippine cinema, Nora Aunor,
and yet nowhere in the almost three-hour "magical drama" does she
shed a tear. It is probably the director’s conceit, or the actor’s challenge to
herself, or both.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Not in any
negative manner, after the movie I felt like I was coming from a wake and I
half-desired to perform the post-wake practice (perhaps superstitious) of
“pagpag.” But perhaps it was a wake. An ambivalent lament for lost values whose
opposites were expressed by people in the “wake” of the main character, Lucas,
and their distorted sense of what’s important in terms of recalling the virtues
of the dead. “He was a lady’s man,” said the militia leader. In an earlier
scene (in the movie’s flash-back, flash-forward narrative), the academic was
enumerating the grieving “favors” from the dead’s alma mater—mass cards,
corporal acts of mercy, requiem masses by the school’s priest-officials, etc.,
like accumulated indulgences. Then there are the frat men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It was a poet’s
movie, not only with liberal quotations from the director’s favorite poets
(Hopkins and Rilke, and later the director’s own lines), but in the visual
execution and the use of visual symbols to move the narrative, and the
simultaneity of the time element (the past, the present, and the future
crisscrossing all throughout), among others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The poet-director
is firstly a poet who is comfortable in the visual medium, conversant with
movie techniques and adding some of his own. Thus thoroughly contemporary. And
it will take lots of courage, actually, to somehow impose the imaginative or
imaging “quirks” of the poet on the more than partially commercial nature of
cinema. Fortunately, it won initial funding in a festival (QCinema
International Film Festival), but had to crowd-fund itself later as it may have
underestimated its “realization cost.” As I told the director half-jokingly as
the crowd milled around after the screening, it was a poem more than a movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Perhaps there is a
new or emerging tradition in either the national cinema or the Bikol portion of
it—as I’ve seen some samples from Director Alvin Yapan and the previous work
I’ve seen form Cordero, and what Vic Nierva’s (Victor Dennis Tino Nierva) new
short film is promising. Are our newer films becoming more “literary,” or
perhaps is there a new “thinking cinema”? Or is it only the Bikol portion that
might be even straying from current tendencies towards “poverty porn” or the
unremitting urban noire? Or is “regional” cinema less constrained and thus more
free to weave in the already extant “magical realism” that lurks in the
provincial hinterland?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The film’s theme
line is “Memory is stronger than justice.” Because memory is the only human
weapon against unjust death and death by injustice. Perhaps it is the only
human weapon. It may also be said that to remember is human, to be just divine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Enthusiastic
applause at the end, not at all hesitant or tentative, indicated that even if
there were some hints of a longueur in some segments, these were probably
ignored by the instantaneous tribute. 'Hinulid' (incidentally, the word means
“laid to rest” or “laid on a bed and tucked in,” like an infant fast asleep;
but which also refers to the dead Christ enshrined in one of the barrios near
Naga City) is opulent in substance and form. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It might be
funereal and elegiac, esp. in its use of poetry and the traditional and chanted
'pasyon', but at the same time it probes the sources of our grief and
interrogates the causes of our somnambulant peace. Kristian Sendon Cordero, the
poet I know, continues to show his deft and confident hand in the complex genre
of filmic poetry or poetic cinema he has chosen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the sagely priest Raffi Banzuela plays in the film, says something about men
being caught between remembering the past and imagining the future. Memory then
is behind us, and imagination, in front of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am tempted to
play around with the idea, and to think that the ideal state of affairs would
be the reverse; that imagination were behind us, and memory were in our future.
Would it not be the most Christ-like of conditions if men were imagined (and
thus anticipated) before being conceived, and then remembered after their time
had come to pass? Perhaps, but this most ideal of conditions is not given to
everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Indeed, there are
even those whose births are accidents of circumstance, and whose lives and
deaths have been long forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is worse than
suffering injustice in life. Hinulid, then, delivers excellently when it
asserts the converse: that memory is greater than justice. Indeed mortal
justice could not do final justice to broken bones and wounded flesh and
emptied spirit. The laws of mere men are meaningless in the face of eternity.
Christ asked not to be avenged, but to be remembered, and his Church finds
sustenance in that final instruction. The repentant thief asked for nothing
more than to be remembered when the Lord ascends to paradise. All hope in our
faith, all meaning to our existence, and our only chance at cheating on our
appointment with oblivion is the prospect of being remembered. It subverts all
the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Death is no
incident if it does not offer passage into memory. We owe it to our beloved
dead to remember them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They say that the
sense of hearing fades away last when one nears death. If anything, this
reveals the intimate relationship between sound and memory. Without devaluing
its visual quality, Hinulid is primarily an aural experience. The film's sounds
evoke, invoke, and provoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Finally, I have
debated with myself whether to include a brief note on what I saw to be
artistic influences of the director pervading the film. The literary quality of
the film is palpable; Cordero's opus would make an excellent tribute to Borges.
It is also, certainly, a tip of the hat to Jesuits, under whom the director
studied, and to pedagogy in general. Most pleasingly to this convert of a
writer, Hinulid is highly reverential of the Church, without worshiping it.
This is a breath of fresh air from the stale atmosphere of contemporary
independent cinema, where speaking ill of ancient institutions seems to be the norm
if not the prerequisite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In summary,
Cordero has extended the boundaries of cinema, without having to say so. In the
Bikolano risorgimento, Cordero is often called the enfant terrible. The
reverence, the humility, the genius in the film make me think that he merits
the additional (if not alternative) title of "enfant adorable."
Hinulid is a Bikolano film first; but it is Bikol with a loving view to the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is a scene
in Kristian Sendon Cordero’s sophomore film “Hinulid” that emblematizes the
predicament of mourning that the narrative seeks to work through in its
iterations of how forlorn the human can be when abandoned permanently through
that event: death. It is dusk in Iriga. Sita Dimaiwat (Nora Aunor) traverses
the cemetery arch on which the Latin phrase “Via Omni Caris” is painted; the
bodiless cannot trespass. Sepulchres are built not to hold the remains of the
departed; the funerarium is such a place, because we are all alone, we fear
ourselves also fading. Do not leave me just yet; here, a monument. Through a
labyrinth of tombs fortified by cement and marble, Aunor blends in with the
shades of a tropic crepuscule: ochre, as the waning sun; obsidian, like the
cloak of night. When she finds her son Lucas (Jesus Mendoza) weeping before the
tomb of his priest-guardian (Raffi Banzuela), she participates in a frame of
grief: she sees the one she has yet to mourn for, mourning. That the rhythms of
sorrow commingle in this instance points to the opportunity where the film
locates the time where one is entitled to grieve---memory, that interregnum in
the mind where one labors too hard to come to terms with passage: what has gone
is not only lost; it is foregone to be found as missing. Even when the injury
is not total, the site of ruin tells us: here lies all the hurt, every inch
speaks of an insufferable damage. So, one asks: Did it happen? Was he here?
Were all of it true? The act of yearning is that moment of provenance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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anxious to pursue this cusp of thought that he conjures the testimony through a
mode of retrieval that reduces the quadrant of interpretive possibilities
someone like Dante Alighieri has offered to a mere if not a modest proposal.
The mourning is grounded in a cosmogonic myth of how galactic light is split
into maternal brilliance and cherubic luminosity and how the earth registers
this scission upon a meteorite isle where fireflies surrender their final
blaze. This autochthonous basis is inlaid with a colonial narrative of
christological interment: the Messiah is dead, yes, but thrice, as a statuary
of identical eburnean figures clothed in vermilion radiance and encased in
cuboid glass. The triplication is a mnemonic to refuse the telos of a sorrowful
mystery, much like the melismatic ululations of the folk which decorate elegiac
enjambments of the Pasyon quintilla, preventing the lyric from punctuating
itself quite predictably, in sheer loneliness. It has to be said that while
this aspect of colonial idiom is now read as an act of sufferance and
revolution, what remains to be articulated is how dolorous maternity intervenes
in activating intransigence. Sita in "Hinulid" could have fulfilled
that post-passional reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strange that while it is Sita who is portrayed as sorrowful, the dolefulness is
not demonstrated according to her lamentational terms. Instead, the agony is
projected upon her through this Christ thrice interred. This puts into question
the memory that her consciousness is supposed to verify as the truth of her
mourning. Sita needs to mourn a dead son thrice: as child, adolescent, man.
What is amplified by this triplication? I’m trying to remember Nora’s face
through the three hours of Cordero’s Rinconada mock epic and for the first
time, after all those years, Aunor registers vacancy. There is magnification,
yes. Mourning becomes Nora, and thrice so. And yet, each time this is staged,
in distinction or in simultaneity, the dolour, because of the imposition, is
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Santo Entierro will only make sense if its triplication can be argued to
originate from the Mater Dolorosa herself, and in a relation of correspondence
that is less reaction than receipt. The peculiarity of this Pieta must also be
mariologically immanent. If Christ could die thrice, of course, Mary should
mourn in the same time signature. However, the cinema of “Hinulid” must
elaborate how dolorous maternity is thrice possible from a Marian perspective.
After all, the narrative is told by Sita, not by her son dying through three
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Lisboa’s "Vocabulario de la lengua Bicol" defines “holid” as
“recostar al niño en el regazo, o en la cuna.” To lay a child on one’s lap, or
in his crib: these are acts of maternal nurturance. But this scene also makes
sense as the Pieta inasmuch as it alludes to the Nativity. If Sita must inter
her son thrice, it is because his death reminds her of the emptiness of her
womb through his childhood, boyhood, youth. His death affirms the terminus of
her being a woman. Hollowed out by loss, she embodies a desert longing. This
must be Aunor’s late style thesis. My well of loneliness has been depleted. I
am nothing. I have known all manner of fatigue. I was all womb before. Now, let
me be his sepulchre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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body of her son: 2) the memory of the body she has reared; 3) and her own
obsolescence, which she must remember and grieve in advance. Pace Blanchot, one
is never present at one's own death. If his son has faded ahead of her, the
hour of her own death looms large in solitariness. Nora's eyes are vacant to
honor the imminence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the memory of the dearly departed can only be worked through intimately, the
privacy of grief must not be reduced to the domestic. Memory is not stronger
than justice. Memory is as strong as justice. If Cordero has written a screed
against the capillaries of power through a matrix of institutions which plot
the murder of its most thoughtful activists, then an autopsy of power must be
demanded, perhaps not through the parabolic distensions of folklore, but within
a critical ethnography similar to Nancy Scheper Hughes study on "death
without weeping" among mothers in a Brazilian necropolis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the village of Kagbunga in the Bikol region carrying the ashes of her only son
via the old train that circles her universe like the tandayag, the primordial
serpent. In a filial act of mourning, she will reckon and reconcile the thin
line that exists between tragedy and transcendence and prove and that even the
most broken life can be restored to its moments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cordero is a Bikolnon writer, a cultural worker, an academic, and a filmmaker.
He has won major literary awards including the National Book Awards; the Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature; the National Commission for
Culture and Arts’ Writers Prize; the Madrigal-Gonzales Best First Book Award;
the 2014 and 2016 Gintong Aklat Awards, and Maningning Miclat Poetry Awards
among others. He has translated the works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Jorge Luis
Borges, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde and Karel Capek to Bikol and Filipino. For his
first full-length film, Angustia (CinemaOne Originals), the Young Critics
Circle of the Philippines recognized his work as one of the Best First Films in
2013. Hinulid is his second film.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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of numerous honors for a distinguished career spanning five decades, Superstar
Nora Aunor received another Lifetime Achievement Award, this time from the
fledgling Singkuwento International Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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actress collected this latest accolade during the festival’s awarding
ceremonies Saturday night at the the Leandro Locsin Theater at the National
Commission for the Culture and the Arts Building in Intramuros, Manila.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In addition to
thanking the film festival, the NCCA, filmmakers, producers and the media
people who remained faithful to her, La Aunor dedicated the award to her loyal
Noranians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I didn’t plan any of
the great phase[s] that happened in my life. I take each day as it comes
because I really believe that dreams could change, people change, plans change.
I know that not all our wishes can come true. In my humble case, I know I
wouldn’t be here if not for my loyal fans. I owe them everything I have. They
inspire me to do more. They inspire me to be the best that I can be. Thank you
to all my fans for making Nora Aunor a lasting reality,” she declared in an
emotional acceptance speech.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The actress also
fondly referred to as Ate Guy already had lifetime achievement awards from the
FAMAS, the Gawad Urian, the Film Academy of the Philippines, the Cinemanila
International Film Festival, the Cinema One Originals (Legend award) and just
last year, the ASEAN International Film Festival and Awards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aunor was however,
deprived of what many consider as the ultimate recognition for an artist of her
stature. Despite the recommendation of the NCCA, President Noynoy Aquino
refused to proclaim her as National Artist in 2014 due to her implication in a
drug case in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As Aquino’s term ends
this year, there is still hope for the actress to be proclaimed National Artist
by the country’s next president. The selection process for National Artists is
conducted every two to three years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Masasabi ngang ang Taong
2015 ay isa na namang panahon ng pag-aani ng karangalan para kay Nora Aunor at
sa bayang Pilipinas. Marapat lamang na
ipagdiwang ang isang pagpapala. Ang pagmamahal sa sining at ang pagpupunyagi na
mapabuti ang sining ay tunay na nagbunga ng masagana. Bagama’t sinasabi ni Nora Aunor na hindi niya
mararating ang kalagayang ito kung wala ang suporta ng mga humahanga sa kanya
subalit ang tagumpay na ito ay dahil na rin sa talento at talino na binigay ng
Poong Maykapal at nilinang ng kahusayan ng nag-iisang Nora Aunor na nagmula rin
sa kanya. Lahat ng papuri ay para sa
Diyos!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Narito ang talaan ng mga
parangal at pagkilala sa Sining ni Nora Aunor sa Taong 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. 3<sup>rd</sup> St.
Tropez International Film Festival - Dementia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2. Star Awards for
Movies: Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) - Dementia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3. Kapuri-puring
Aktres: Gawad TANGLAW - Dementia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4. Pinakapasadong
Aktres: Gawad PASADO (Pampelikulang Samahan ng mga Dalubguro) - Dementia and
Hustisya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">5. 1st Urduja Heritage
Film Awards - Dementia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">6. Best Performance by
a Male or Female in a Leading Role: Annual Brun Film Awards (Readers Choice) -
Hustisya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">7. Outstanding
Actress: Sangyaw Awards (Tacloban City) - Taklub<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">8. Outsatanding
Performance by an Actress in a Single Drama / Telemovie Program: Golden Screen
Awards for TV (Enpress) - When I Fall In love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. Gusi Peace Prize
International Award – International Excellence in Performing Arts and Cinema<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2. Gawad CCP para sa
Sining for Film and Broadcast Arts – Cultural Center of the Philippines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1.Bulawan na Bikolnon
Award - Ateneo de Naga University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2.Gawad Lasallian Para
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3. Alagad at Yaman ng
Konkretong Obra (AYKON) - Far Eastern University (FEU)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4. Natatanging Alagad
ng Sining - National Teachers College (NTC)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. ASEAN International
Film Festival and Awards (AIFFA)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2. Natatanging Gawad Award:
Gawad URIAN ng Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3. 1<sup>st</sup>
Urduja Film Festival: Espada ni Urduja, Kampeong ng Sining ng Pelikula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. Senate Resolution
1270 - Commendation for her AIFFA Award<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2.Honorary Nagueña -
Naga Ctiy, Bicol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3. ONRA Citation - Ako
Bicol Partylist Group<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4. Diwa ng Lahi Award
- City of Manila <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. Ecumenical Jury
Award: Un Certain Section – 2015 Cannes Film Festival (TAKLUB)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. Outstanding Asian
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2.Iconic Movie Queen
of Philippine Cinema: Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS
Awards)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nora Aunor Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Aunor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Standard<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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December 11, 2015 at 06:35 pm <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://thestandard.com.ph/showbitz/194182/it-s-raining-awards-for-superstar-nora-aunor.html">http://thestandard.com.ph/showbitz/194182/it-s-raining-awards-for-superstar-nora-aunor.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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fruitful for acclaimed actress Nora Aunor, not only projects but also in
awards. The Superstar was recently honored with the Gusi Peace Prize for
International Excellence in Performing Arts. This happened just months after
being awarded the Gawad Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Para sa Sining
for Film and Broadcast Arts as well as the Natatanging Gawad Urian by the
Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recognized for her significant contributions in film, stage, television, and
music, is the lone Filipino among a group of 19 Gusi prize laureates worldwide.
The Gusi Foundation gives the award to those who work toward the attainment of
peace and respect for human life and dignity. It is also a charitable
institution which primarily aims to recognize individuals or groups worldwide
in various fields such as the academe, scientific research and discovery, physiology
or medicine, chemistry, physics, journalism, statesmanship, philanthropy or
humanitarianism, economics, cinematic excellence, performing arts, visual arts,
engineering technology, religion, politics, poverty alleviation, literature,
cultural heritage, internationalism, architecture, archaeology, ecosystem and
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Gusi prize, Gawad CCP, and the Natatanging Gawad, she was also conferred
another Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 ASEAN International Film
Festival and Awards in Sarawak, Malaysia for her remarkable acting career
spanning almost 50 years. She also registered her eighth international Best
Actress win at the St. Tropez International Film Festival in France for her
role in Perci Intalan’s Dementia, which eventually won Best Foreign Language
Film. In addition, she was recognized as a cultural icon by different
universities and colleges, among them Bicol University, Ateneo de Naga
University, National Teachers College, Far Eastern University, and De La Salle
University. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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considered one of the Iconic Movie Queens of Philippine Cinema at the recent
FAMAS Awards. She also starred in Brillante Mendoza’s Yolanda-inspired drama
Taklub, which was screened at the Un Certain Regard category in Cannes Film
Festival. It was cited with a Special Mention by the Ecumenical Jury. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bernal’s Tinay in the GMA primetime soap opera Little Nanay. She stars as a
Binukot, a maiden chosen to be the fairest among the women in her village, in
the 2016 Cinemalaya film Tuos directed by Derick Cabrido. – Photos: Boying Capistrano and Art
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AWARDEE: Even with her less than 5-foot bearing, Nora Aunor stood tall as the
lone Filipino honoree at the 2015 Gusi Peace Prize awards alongside 18 other
international dignitaries, scientists, medical doctors, academicians, including
former president of Portugal Antonio Eanes. The veteran actress, who has won a
harvest of international awards for her acting, is just one of four women
receiving the exclusive honors this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Peace Prize 2015 was handed out in a formal ceremony at the Philippine
International Convention Center (PICC) on Nov. 25. The night before, a welcome
dinner was hosted by the Gusi family at the Fiesta Pavilion of The Manila Hotel
where the Philippine superstar was hailed as a world-class international
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inadequate in the company of her fellow awardees, all of them trailblazers and
trained experts in their respective fields of endeavor. The winner from
Austria, for example, Prof. Hans Lehroch, was being honored for his work in
scientific research on human genome and medical systems biology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Australia) was receiving the same honor for her work in medicine (intensive
care). Nineteen internationally renowned individuals who have distinguished
themselves in fields ranging from academe to research, engineering to poverty
alleviation and cinema, are being feted this year by the Gusi, now on its 14th
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Barry S. Gusi, president of the award-giving body, Nora is being recognized for
her significant and internationally acclaimed contributions to the performing
arts. The Gusi award is aimed at inspiring societies to work closer in the attainment
of peace and respect for human life and dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Previous winners of
the Gusi Peace Prize from the Philippines include former Presidents Fidel V.
Ramos and Gloria M. Arroyo. Every fourth Wednesday of November has been
declared by Pres. Arroyo as the Gusi Peace Prize International Friendship Day
under Presidential Decree 1476.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by: Dr. Evelyn T. Gusi<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">November 12, 2015</span></div>
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Gusi Peace Prize Foundation is cordially inviting you to attend our program of
activities scheduled this month for the year 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a background, the Gusi Peace Prize is Asia's foremost award giving body and
among the leading in the world today. In recognizing the most brilliant
examples of those working toward the attainment of peace and respect for human
life and dignity, the Gusi Peace Prize brings out the best of human
achievements, ideals and values.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a charitable foundation, registered at
the Security and Exchange Commission, whose main objective is to recognize and
give proper recognition through the conferment of awards of excellence and
distinction to individuals or groups worldwide who have distinguished
themselves as brilliant exemplars of society or who contributed toward the
attainment of peace and respect for human life and dignity with the following
categories such as follows: Academe, Scientific Research and Discovery, Physiology
or Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Journalism, Statesmanship, Philanthropy or
Humanitarianism, Economics, Cinematic Excellence, Performing Arts, Visual Arts,
Engineering Technology, Religion, Politics, Poverty Alleviation, Literature,
Cultural Heritage, Internationalism, Architecture, Archaeology, Ecosystem and
Biodiversity and Biology. It is mandated by Presidential Proclamation 1476,
declaring “Every fourth Wednesday of November as the Gusi Peace Prize
International Friendship Day”. This
year, it will be on November 25, 2015 at 5 pm at PICC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stanislavovich Shushkevich, Statesmanship and Academe [Physics and
Mathematics] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Youth Leadership <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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[Hepatobiliary Surgery]: Organ Transplantation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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International Diplomacy
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Academe & Research on Maxilla-Facial Surgery; &
Internationalization of Medical Education<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prof. Dr.Hans Lehrach, Scientific Research [Human Genome & Medical Systems Biology]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Scientific Research<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PHILIPPINES-Miss NORA CABALTERA VILLAMAYOR [NORA AUNOR], INTERNATIONAL
EXCELLENCE in Performing Arts [for Film, Stage, Television and for Music]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Poverty Alleviation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Philosophical Science<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Engineering Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Scientific Research on Engineering Ecology & <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Energy
of the Future].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Response<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As our country’s lone Gusi Peace Prize laureate
representative for this year, Philippine Superstar Miss Nora Aunor is being
recognized and awarded for her significant contributions and International
Excellence in Performing Arts [for Film, Stage, Television and for Music].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
2015 Annual Gusi Peace Prize International will be awarded at the Philippine
International Convention Center on Wednesday, November 25, 2015. It will be
attended by thousands of national and international dignitaries and delegates,
who meet up together like an assembly of United Nations, to inspire others to
be achievers and peacemakers, promoting world peace, friendship and goodwill,
true to the vision of the Gusi Peace Prize International Foundation under the
leadership of Chairman Barry Gusi. Indeed, the Philippines as a sovereign
country, being Asia’s first republic, with its central location in the Far
East, and dubbed as the “Crossroads of the Pacific”, and the “Pearl of the
Orient Seas” has become the rendezvous of the East and West; the melting pot,
that people from different parts of the globe look forward to visit in order to
be part of the international event of the “Gusi Peace Prize”. After all, GUSI
stands for Godliness, Unification, Service, and Internationalism.</span></div>
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known as Nora Aunor, began her life in the late 60s as a singer, singing songs
of varied sources and initiating the resurgence of different vocal music. She knew hunger before her golden voice
brought her to the attention of the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Her journey from a young
girl selling water in the train station to someone providing the wishes and
hopes of the nation’s masses is no less than epic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and cinema with that entry, she would change our colonial perspective about
physical beauty. She started in musicals
and melodrama that served as escape for the many looking to her as
inspiration. Soon, she would make films
that subverted politics and politicize subversion. In her many films, she helped us escape from
stereotypical women as she fleshed out the possibilities of Filipina womanhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Aunor would perform
theater pieces proving the legitimacy of that genius. In plays and movies, she played characters
that were current to the country’s crisis and concerns – migrant labor, rebels,
and ambitious lovers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Aunor’s acting styole
would create a massive shift in the performance traditions that were already
entrenched. She would change all that
with her portrayal of characters that were marginalized but, with the strength
and conviction of her skills, became central in the nation’s imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For an ordinary person
transformed into an extraordinary thespian whose legacy to the performing and
media arts are the expressions of a magnificent face that can show triumphs and
defeats, pains and joys all at the same time in a silence and subtlety that is
as disturbing, as enduring and as endearing as the struggles of the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Gawad CCP para sa
Sining (Film and Broadcast Arts) is given on this 17<sup>th</sup> of Septem,ber
2015 to Nora Villamayor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poverty and politics are
the birthright of Nora Villamayor, more popularly known as Nora Aunor. It does not matter really when she was
born. That she was born very poor
matters because, like in the many narratives of her films, she would rise from
that squalor into a status that symbolizes and, at the same time, subverts
social mobility in this nation. This is
where politics enters into Aunor’s birth: her person will form an actor and an
acting style that may not be always explicitly but are a subtle and succinct
commentary on how power is used and misused in the societies of the republic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In the summer of 2015,
Aunor was honored with the honorary Nagueña Award. It is her fate that Aunor would alweays stand
for something bigger than where she physically came from, the town of Iriga
then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Geography and genius
would explain the influence of Nora Aunor on the cinema of the
Philippines. Iriga was a small town when
she joined the amateur contest in the city of Naga. That town is part of Rinconada, a term which
means “corner.” In her career as an
actor, Aunor would portray characters who were either outcasts or t the
outskirt of social groups. By being born
in a town that was at the periphery of a region that was also not mainstream in
the thought of the dominant culture of this country, she would have in her
spirit a marginalized that is beyond compare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In her speech in Naga
City in March of 2015, Aunor would share with the audience how they were so
poor that they, as family, would take turns borrowing from the neighborhood
store. Born to Antonia Cabaltera ans
Eustaquio Villamayor on May 21, 1953, Aunor remembered a childhood not sad but
extremely subsistent. She knew hunger
before songs. She was the most patient of
the siblings to wait on her father who worked as a stevedore in the train
station. At the sound of the train
whistling, her father, Aunor recalled, would wake up immediately because that
sound meant work, and work meant food on the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Who would ever think
that I, an ugly girl, would ever be an “artista”? Aunor asked will all candor that night. She would not ask the question that the
critics would ask later: Who is this woman and why is she able to alter the
cultural landscape of cinema in this land?
That question was no question but a defiant answer to a query on art
made relevant and new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nora Aunor would sing
first and win a national singing competition: the respected <i>Tawag ng Tanghalan</i>. Gone was the girl who had to stretch out her
neck to listen to the songs played over the radio of a neighbor.
Gone was the girl who sang for food.
On that stage, the wisp of a girl sang “Moonlight Becomes You”,
defeating singers more educated and with more capital to fund a better
dress. She looked at the sky only she
could see with those searing eyes and sang to the moon and the night and the
music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In career that spans
almost half a century and continues to this day, she has made more than 170 movies,
numerous TV shows and concerts, three plays, and more than 50 music album. Her TV show Superstar was one of the longest
running. The word Superstar would mean
nothing without her. Her numerous vinyl
albums would revitalize the Filipino music industry at a time when foreign
artist dominated the recording scene.
Her drama anthologies on television, like <i>Makulay na Daigdig ni Nora</i>, served as a spawning if not training
ground for directors who would become master filmmakers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Then there was the film
industry beckoning her, machinery that was built on actors and actresses that
had the Caucasian features, the so-called mestizos and mestizas whose images
resembled Hollywood celebrities. And
yet, she would conquer this terrain and win over to her side a newly formed
critics’ group called <i>Manunuri ng
Pelikulang Pilipino</i>. In 1976, she
won the first Gawad Urian for Best Actress, a star and a thespian vanquishing
those who ever doubted her. The film was
<i>Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos</i>, where she
played lead but thematically a villain.
She was not only an actor in the film; she was also the producer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">She would produce more
and act in the films she funded: Bona would join other films as the best in the
world, to cite one example. She would
portray Elsa, a reluctant faith healer, in <i>Himala</i>,
a film that would be declares the best in Asia by CNN-Asia Pacific Screen
Awards in 2008. The role has been lauded
by film scholars attributing the mystique of the performance to the fact that
Aunor’s fandom parallels the fanaticism and faith of people. Iconic is perhaps the most abused term
writers can give to a celebrity but in <i>Himala</i>,
Aunor was Elsa becomes the icon around which doubt and belief circumnavigated,
in which religion becomes not a refuge but a refutation. One can safely say that if an actor can give
a hundred shades of black and white, a magnificent canvas of chiaroscuro
describes Aunor’s Elsa – timid, manipulative, victim, aggressor, confronting
and retreating, in sorrow or in joy – an art to behold and trial to witness by
those who believe that cinema is not merely images on the flickering silver
screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nora Aunor would win
awards in several continents. The label
“Superstar” is never ridiculous when attached to her name. Lately, she is being called “The Grand Dame
of Philippine Movies”’ indicating not her age but her wisdom, not really her
longevity but the amazing perpetuity of the acting acumen that has brought
forth women whose decisions about loyalty and love, self and nationalism have
been questioned. In Aunor, these women
responded back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Formidable are the
characters that Aunor has fleshed out through many decades. She slept with the enemy in <i>Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos</i> and lived in
the home of the enemy she planned to kill in <i>Bakit May Kahapon Pa?</i>. She
lived in <i>Merika</i> and made us think of
those decisions to stay in a foreign land all for economic survival; she
offered us the terrible options to go to America even if some soldiers of that
land could mistake our brothers for pigs in <i>Mina’y
Isang Ganu-Gamo</i>. She looked at the
eye of the storm in <i>Taklub</i> and only
saw our sense of self; she collected umbilical in <i>Thy Womb</i> because she could not produce one herself. She, in fact, played mothers and lovers whose
duplicity enabled us to gaze not at morality but at the complexity of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">She has won all the
acting awards. She has been elevated to
the many Halls of fame. The world has
seen her, and bestowed the accolade on her because she holds the oar and she
freely navigates the sea of humanity, ferrying us from shores of ignorance to
some afterlife of knowledge through a genius in performance that could only
come from poverty, politics and geography – the schools of acting that have
given her the boon to share with the many who believe in her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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