11 Days in August and the “ghosts in the machine”

• Main Author: Caralde, Mae U.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: People power; political mimesis; film body; documentary; Film and Media Studies; Public History; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol3/iss2/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1055/viewcontent/1_Caralde.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This essay will put forward a case of political mimesis in the film, 11 Days in August (1983), which contributed to the buildup of social movements in the Philippines that ended the Marcos dictatorship in 1986. By describing the processes ‘imaging back’ and ‘bodying back’ Gaines (1999), the document...