Few filmmakers make films as long as those of Lav Diaz. Six hours is not even particularly long within his oeuvre. He has films to his name that are twice that long. And even fewer filmmakers would want to reshoot a film they’ve already made. Yet that’s what happened here. Lav Diaz shot a first version of Florentina Hubaldo, CTE in 2009 (when it was still called Agonistes, Myth of a Nation). Once he had a HD camera, he decided to shoot the film again. Another long film. Back to distant and inhospitable locations. It says a lot about this filmmaker's commitment that he does not make life easy for himself when telling his epic social dramas.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. A variant of the condition, dementia pugilistica (DP), is primarily associated with boxing.
Individuals with CTE may show symptoms of dementia such as memory loss, aggression, confusion and depression which may appear within months of the trauma or many decades later.
- Director
- Lav Diaz
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Philippines
- Year
- 2012
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 366'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- Tagalog
- Producer
- Lav Diaz
- Production Company
- Sine Olivia Pilipinas
- Sales
- Sine Olivia Pilipinas
- Screenplay
- Lav Diaz
- Cinematography
- Lav Diaz
- Editor
- Lav Diaz
- Production Design
- Dante Perez
- Sound Design
- Willy Fernandez
- Cast
- Hazel Orencio, Dante Perez, Kristine Kintana
- Local Distributor
- Hubert Bals Fund