Behind the Scenes With Lav Diaz | Esquire Philippines - video Dailymotion

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Lav Diaz, our June cover star, talks about fighting historical revisionism through cinema. “I want to be part of the struggle to destroy the wall of ignorance.”  #EsquirePHVideo #EsquirePHCover #EsquireXLavDiaz

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00:11All of my work, I was anchored to a period of our history and experience.

00:19It's part of examining our past. It's part of educating our people as well.

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00:28It's part of my struggle with making a ceiling in the ceiling.

00:33To infuse, to integrate parts of our history for educating our people.

00:39Transcendence, we have to see life. We have to understand the human condition more.

00:45The wall of ignorance is the biggest problem of the world now.

00:51Just in spite of TikTok, all this fast information, Wikipedia, all these things.

00:57Ang totoo, lalong lumalaki yung wall of ignorance.

01:01And we need to fight that. I don't want to rush my works.

01:05I want to be part of the struggle to destroy the wall of ignorance.

01:08That's part of the obligation or responsibility of my cinema.

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Behind the Scenes With Lav Diaz | Esquire Philippines

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