lavdiaz &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:lavdiaz @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:29:01 +0200 Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz, 2012) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0ns5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz, 2012)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" International Day of the Tropics/div div class="img" Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)/div div class="caption" A small river in the outskirts of the jungle. A young woman sits in the water cradling an older woman, like a Pietà. A man, in the same water, is slumped in a wooden chair. A third woman is standing there, looking at us, her head slightly tilted. DP: Lav Diaz./div div class="txt" A film set in a tropical location for the International Day of the Tropics "We Malays, we Filipinos, are not governed by the concept of time. We are governed by the concept of space. We don't believe in time. If you live in the country, you see Filipinos hang out. They are not very productive. That is very Malay. It is all about space and nature. [...] In the Philippine archipelago, nature provided everything, until the concept of property came with the Spanish colonizers. Then the capitalist order took control. [...] The concept of time was introduced to us when the Spaniards came. We had to do oracion [pray] at six o'clock, and start work at seven. Before it was free, it was Malay." ### – Lav Diaz, via /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalDayOfTheTropics #LavDiaz #HazelOrencio #KristineKintana #NoelStoDomingo #WillyFernandez #JoelFerrer #drama #Philippines #2010s/div /section ]]>

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz, 2012)

Jul

29

International Day of the Tropics

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)

A small river in the outskirts of the jungle. A young woman sits in the water cradling an older woman, like a Pietà. A man, in the same water, is slumped in a wooden chair. A third woman is standing there, looking at us, her head slightly tilted. DP: Lav Diaz.

A film set in a tropical location for the International Day of the Tropics

“We Malays, we Filipinos, are not governed by the concept of time. We are governed by the concept of space. We don't believe in time. If you live in the country, you see Filipinos hang out. They are not very productive. That is very Malay. It is all about space and nature. [...] In the Philippine archipelago, nature provided everything, until the concept of property came with the Spanish colonizers. Then the capitalist order took control. [...] The concept of time was introduced to us when the Spaniards came. We had to do oracion [pray] at six o'clock, and start work at seven. Before it was free, it was Malay.”

– Lav Diaz, via

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalDayOfTheTropics #LavDiaz #HazelOrencio #KristineKintana #NoelStoDomingo #WillyFernandez #JoelFerrer #drama #Philippines #2010s

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