Lullaby of Diasporic Time: On Lav Diaz‟s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

• Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Lav Diaz; slow cinema; paratextual studies; diaspora of time; trans-cultural encounters and exchanges; hybridity and transnationalism; transnational text; Film and Media Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/24; https://www.usd.ac.id/seminar/lsc/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Christian-Benitez.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Lav Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker notable as a key figure in the contemporary slow cinema movement. Of his oeuvre, one of the longest is A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Filipino: Hele sa Higawang Hapis), a 2016 epic film that runs for 8 hours, orchestrating narratives derived from wha...