Interview with Lav Diaz: 2010-2020

Lav Diaz, born in 1958 in the Philippines, made his directorial debut in the late 1990s, quickly establishing himself as one of today's most radical and innovative filmmakers. Throughout the years, he has received numerous international recognitions, including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival (2014), the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale (2016), and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (2016). Diaz has also been a recipient of prestigious awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, the Prince Claus Award in 2014, and the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University from 2016 to 2017.

Famous for his black-and-white, long-take aesthetics, Diaz has spent the past three decades using cinema to examine the lasting effects of Spanish colonization from 1521 to 1898, American rule from 1898 to 1946, Japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945, Ferdinand Marcos's dictatorship from 1972 to 1986, and Rodrigo Duterte's ongoing War on Drugs on the Filipino body politic and psyche.

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