When Benedict Anderson Met Lav Diaz
Lavrente Indico Diaz is the director of Norte, The End of History and the keenest observer of Philippine society and politics in the cinema today.
Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson is the author of Imagined Communities (Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism) and the most influential historian on Southeast Asia today.
It was imperative that we bring them together for drinks and conversation.
Between them, they have produced The Spectre of Comparisons; Melancholia; Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination; Death in the Land of Encantos; A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia; Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing); The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand; Batang West Side, among many others.
We were there to record this historic occasion.
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March 6th, 2014 at 07:47
Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination was such a great read