Corinne Maury is professor in film aesthetics at the University of Poitiers. She has published Marcher au cinéma, lignes d’existences (2024), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles (2020), The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema (2022), L’Attrait de la pluie (2013) and Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011). Her research focuses mainly on contemporary cinema (fiction and documentary), space in cinema (place, landscape, territory) and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.Olivier Zuchuat is HES associate professor in the film department at HEAD - Geneva (HES-SO). A director and editor, his film credits include Djourou (2004), Far from the villages (2008), Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night (2013) and The Perimeter of Kamsé (2020), all of which were released in Europe. He published Attraits de la durée. Plans perdurant et montage intra-plan dans le cinema contemporain (2025) and co-edited the books Montage: Une anthologie (1913–2018) and Lav Diaz: Faire face (2022).

• List of contributors ixList of illustrations xi1 Introduction 1CORINNE MAURY AND OLIVIER ZUCHUATPART ONEViolent stories, resurgent history 92 Lav Diaz, the possibility of a people? 11GABRIEL BORTZMEYER3 Allegoric forms of history in three films by Lav Diaz 23SYLVIE ROLLET4 About Servando Magdamag, Lino Brocka and melodrama.A dialogue with Mac Alejandre and Ricardo Lee 355 The need for melodrama 40CYRIL BÉGHINPART TWODevastated lands, ritualised lands 556 “There is no there there” 57FABIENNE COSTA7 The agony and the ecstasy: fragments of discussions between Lav Diaz and Alexander Tioseco on Death in the Land of Encantos 658 Existing in the aftermath: a lullaby to the sorrowful mystery and from what is before 74MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ9 On From What Is Before. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 8810 A creature may hide another 92PIERRE JAILLOUXPART THREEWounds 10511 Cruelty, perpetual undertow 107CORINNE MAURY12 Shooting Season of the Devil. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 11813 Caring about the world 123JEAN-CHRISTOPHE FERRARIPART FOURActs of creation 12914 Facing the volcano. A production diary 131OLIVIER ZUCHUAT15 About Bazin. A conversation between Lav Diaz and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin 14416 Unfolding, happening, arising. About Lav Diaz’s situation-shots 153OLIVIER ZUCHUATBibliography 165Acknowledgements 169Index 170

Corinne Maury is professor in film aesthetics at the University of Poitiers. She has published Marcher au cinéma, lignes d’existences (2024), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles (2020), The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema (2022), L’Attrait de la pluie (2013) and Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011). Her research focuses mainly on contemporary cinema (fiction and documentary), space in cinema (place, landscape, territory) and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.Olivier Zuchuat is HES associate professor in the film department at HEAD - Geneva (HES-SO). A director and editor, his film credits include Djourou (2004), Far from the villages (2008), Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night (2013) and The Perimeter of Kamsé (2020), all of which were released in Europe. He published Attraits de la durée. Plans perdurant et montage intra-plan dans le cinema contemporain (2025) and co-edited the books Montage: Une anthologie (1913–2018) and Lav Diaz: Faire face (2022).

• List of contributors ixList of illustrations xi1 Introduction 1CORINNE MAURY AND OLIVIER ZUCHUATPART ONEViolent stories, resurgent history 92 Lav Diaz, the possibility of a people? 11GABRIEL BORTZMEYER3 Allegoric forms of history in three films by Lav Diaz 23SYLVIE ROLLET4 About Servando Magdamag, Lino Brocka and melodrama.A dialogue with Mac Alejandre and Ricardo Lee 355 The need for melodrama 40CYRIL BÉGHINPART TWODevastated lands, ritualised lands 556 “There is no there there” 57FABIENNE COSTA7 The agony and the ecstasy: fragments of discussions between Lav Diaz and Alexander Tioseco on Death in the Land of Encantos 658 Existing in the aftermath: a lullaby to the sorrowful mystery and from what is before 74MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ9 On From What Is Before. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 8810 A creature may hide another 92PIERRE JAILLOUXPART THREEWounds 10511 Cruelty, perpetual undertow 107CORINNE MAURY12 Shooting Season of the Devil. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 11813 Caring about the world 123JEAN-CHRISTOPHE FERRARIPART FOURActs of creation 12914 Facing the volcano. A production diary 131OLIVIER ZUCHUAT15 About Bazin. A conversation between Lav Diaz and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin 14416 Unfolding, happening, arising. About Lav Diaz’s situation-shots 153OLIVIER ZUCHUATBibliography 165Acknowledgements 169Index 170

Corinne Maury is professor in film aesthetics at the University of Poitiers. She has published Marcher au cinéma, lignes d’existences (2024), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles (2020), The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema (2022), L’Attrait de la pluie (2013) and Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011). Her research focuses mainly on contemporary cinema (fiction and documentary), space in cinema (place, landscape, territory) and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.Olivier Zuchuat is HES associate professor in the film department at HEAD - Geneva (HES-SO). A director and editor, his film credits include Djourou (2004), Far from the villages (2008), Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night (2013) and The Perimeter of Kamsé (2020), all of which were released in Europe. He published Attraits de la durée. Plans perdurant et montage intra-plan dans le cinema contemporain (2025) and co-edited the books Montage: Une anthologie (1913–2018) and Lav Diaz: Faire face (2022).

• List of contributors ixList of illustrations xi1 Introduction 1CORINNE MAURY AND OLIVIER ZUCHUATPART ONEViolent stories, resurgent history 92 Lav Diaz, the possibility of a people? 11GABRIEL BORTZMEYER3 Allegoric forms of history in three films by Lav Diaz 23SYLVIE ROLLET4 About Servando Magdamag, Lino Brocka and melodrama.A dialogue with Mac Alejandre and Ricardo Lee 355 The need for melodrama 40CYRIL BÉGHINPART TWODevastated lands, ritualised lands 556 “There is no there there” 57FABIENNE COSTA7 The agony and the ecstasy: fragments of discussions between Lav Diaz and Alexander Tioseco on Death in the Land of Encantos 658 Existing in the aftermath: a lullaby to the sorrowful mystery and from what is before 74MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ9 On From What Is Before. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 8810 A creature may hide another 92PIERRE JAILLOUXPART THREEWounds 10511 Cruelty, perpetual undertow 107CORINNE MAURY12 Shooting Season of the Devil. A dialogue with Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio 11813 Caring about the world 123JEAN-CHRISTOPHE FERRARIPART FOURActs of creation 12914 Facing the volcano. A production diary 131OLIVIER ZUCHUAT15 About Bazin. A conversation between Lav Diaz and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin 14416 Unfolding, happening, arising. About Lav Diaz’s situation-shots 153OLIVIER ZUCHUATBibliography 165Acknowledgements 169Index 170