[ecrea] Lav Diaz: Journeys | symposium, screenings and artist's talks

*LAV DIAZ: JOURNEYS*

*Symposium, Screenings & Artist's Talks*

University of Westminster – Harrow and Regent campuses

Friday 3 - Tuesday 7 March 2017

On Saturday 4 March the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and 
Media (CREAM) will host the first international symposium exploring the 
significance of Diaz’s films and mode of artistic practice. The 
symposium features theoretical and practice research on Diaz’s works. It 
signals the importance of a multidisciplinary frame for thinking about 
Diaz’s aesthetics and practice; in terms of both their singularity and 
their location, ground and context.
Speakers range from those working in 
film theory and criticism, film-philosophy, curatorial practice, 
anthropology and political theory. Divergent presentations will reflect 
on the challenges that Diaz’s works pose to the conceptualisation of 
cinematic temporality, space, materiality, spectatorship and realism; 
and to theorisation of the limit and potential of the idea of cinema in 
the digital age. A key aim of the symposium is to establish compelling 
new avenues for placing Diaz’s artistic practice. Beyond contextualising 
Diaz’s practice and the aesthetics of his films in relation to the 
political history of the Philippines, speakers will suggest points of 
connection with diasporic and migratory flows, art history, metaphysics, 
and ritual forms. The symposium will also approach Diaz’s works and 
practice with a view to identifying moments and methods for tracing 
regional resonance and articulating global concerns.

The symposium coincides with the final week of the exhibition LAV DIAZ: 
JOURNEYS at London Gallery West, incorporating special screenings and 
artist’s talks. The/ Woman Who Left/, Diaz’s Golden Lion prize-winner 
from the Venice Film Festival, will screen twice daily at the gallery, 
Friday 3 – Sunday 12 March. A rare 35mm screening of the first of Diaz’s 
major works, /Batang West Side, /will take place at Regent Street Cinema 
on Sunday 5 March. We are thrilled to announce that the artist will be 
present. He will also be in conversation with the exhibition curators in 
the Discourse Space at London Gallery West on Tuesday 7 March.

*SYMPOSIUM:*

Saturday 4 March, 10:00 – 18:00

Room UG05, Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2UW


09.30 Registration, tea and coffee

10.00 Introduction

10.15 – 11.30 Panel 1

Eva Bentcheva (SOAS), ‘Reading Lav Diaz’s Films through Philippine 
Visual Art History’

Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn (QMUL), ‘Lav Diaz: Suggestions for Future 
Studies from Ecological Perspective’

Discussant, Michael Maziere (University of Westminster)

11.30 – 12.45 Panel 2

Michael Guarneri (Northumbria University), ‘Freedom is a Long Shot: Lav 
Diaz and the Never-Ending Struggle of the "Native Intellectual"’

William Brown (University of Roehampton), ‘Evolution of a Filipino 
Family and/as Non-Cinema’

Discussant, Michael Goddard (University of Westminster)

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Panel 3

Parichay Patra (independent scholar), ‘Jesus, Magdalene and the Filipino 
Judas: Lav Diaz and his ‘Artless’ Epics’

Cristina Juan (SOAS), ‘Lav and the Linambay: Catholic-Animist Aesthetics 
and the Films of Lav Diaz’

Discussant, Julian Ross (University of Westminster)

15.15 – 16.30 Panel 4

Rebecca Shatwell (AV Festival), ‘As Slow as Possible: Lav Diaz at AV 
Festival’

May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster), ‘Art, Life and Nation 
Once Again’

Discussant, Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster)

16.30 – 16.45 Tea and coffee

16.45 – 18.00 Book project presentation by Parichay Patra and roundtable 
discussion

18.00 Drinks reception

Download speakers’ abstracts and biographies here 
<http://www.westminster.ac.uk/lavdiazsymposium>

Registration

£15 for full-time waged

Pay if you can for students, unwaged, precarious workers – suggested 
amount £5

Free to staff and students of the University of Westminster

Please register here: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lav-diaz-journeys-symposium-screenings-artists-talks-tickets-32239109043


*SCREENINGS:*

*/The Woman Who Left /*(2016, 226 minutes)

Friday 3 March – Sunday 12 March, 10:00 and 15:00 daily

London Gallery West, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3TP

Inspired by Tolstoy’s /God Sees the Truth, But Waits/. A woman wrongly 
imprisoned is released after 30 years and goes in search of the man who 
put her there.

Free, open to all – no booking required. More information at 
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/london-gallery-west 
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/lav-diaz-journeys>

*Special 35mm cinema screening of /Batang West Side /(2001, 315 minutes) 
followed by Q&A with Lav Diaz *

Sunday 5 March, 13:00

Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

A young Filipino-American is shot dead on West Side Avenue in Jersey 
City. A detective, himself a Filipino, carries out an investigation that 
turns into an examination of the soul of the Filipino diaspora. The 
newly color-corrected 35mm print was created by the Austrian Film Museum 
and Synchro Film, Video & Audio laboratory in Vienna, in close 
collaboration with Lav Diaz – and in memory of Alexis Tioseco 
(1981-2009) & Nika Bohinc (1979-2009). This special screening will be 
followed by a Q&A with Lav Diaz in person.

Tickets available at https://www.regentstreetcinema.com 
<https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/>

*ARTIST'S TALK:*

Tuesday 7 March, 14:00

Discourse Space, London Gallery West, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex 
HA1 3TP

Diaz and the exhibition curators in conversation about his new film /The 
Woman Who Left/.

Free, open to all. No booking required.


Please note that events take place across two campuses - Regent and 
Harrow. Check each listing for details.

Please contact (a.leeman /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.leeman /at/ westminster.ac.uk)> with any questions or for further 
information.



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