Narrative of Memory in Lav Diaz Film Novel A Tale of Filipino Violence (2022)

Abstract

The article studies the film A Tale of Filipino Violence (2022) by Filipino director Lav Diaz from the point of view of considering the anthropology of “difficult” places of memory and the representation of memory on the screen. The phenomenon of memory and its social functioning have been studied by the scientific community for several decades and are expressed in various forms of representation. One of such forms is filmmaking — fiction and documentary films. And while documentary cinema represents the memory of various social groups through the memories and judgments of direct participants in the events based on documentary evidence, fiction film usually presents a more complex structure, in which memory “breaks through” artistic images that are often fictional, but absorb echoes of time and events.

Keywords

• memory
• feature film
• research methodology
• memory studies