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Lav Diaz Interview

Magellan • 12m

Meet Lav Diaz, the iconoclastic Filipino filmmaker whose monumental MAGELLAN imagines the life of the titular explorer from a bracing anticolonial perspective. In the following interview, Diaz recounts his early marathon trips to the movies with his cinema-obsessed father, the influence of Russian novels and Malay culture on his approach to storytelling, and the sense of discovery he seeks in his unique filmmaking process.

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