Lav Diaz
- Directing
- December 30, 1958 · Columbio, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines
Biography
Lavrente 'Lav' Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino independent filmmaker and former film critic. He is known as one of the key practitioners of the slow cinema genre, producing a diverse range of some of the longest narrative films that explore social and political issues, minimalistic storytelling, long takes, and cinematic form. Although he had been making films since the late 1990s, Diaz didn't attract much public attention outside of the Philippines and the festival circuit until the release of Norte, the End of History, which was entered into Un Certain Regard section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. His three subsequent films have received much critical attention and many awards with 2014's From What Is Before earning him the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival as well as a nomination for the Asian Film Award for Best Director, 2016's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery competing for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival and winning the Alfred Bauer Prize, and 2016's The Woman Who Left competing at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and winning the Golden Lion.
Known for
Filmography
- Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors · Director, Production Design
- Del Mundo
- Cinemartyrs · Kristo
- Magellan · Screenplay, Director
- Phantosmia · Director, Cinematography
- Moneyslapper · Lucas
- Faith · Director
- Absalom Filipino · Director
- Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust · Poet (Voice)
- Real Life Fiction
- Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge · Kristo Kastrado
- When the Waves Are Gone · Production Design, Director
- Essential Truths of the Lake · Cinematography, Writer
- Taxibol · Self
- The Devil of Comparisons · Priest
- A Tale of Filipino Violence · Editing, Screenplay
- History of Ha · Writer, Director
- Atravesando el campo · Lav Diaz
- Life in 24 Frames a Second · Self
- Genus Pan · Director, Cinematography
- Liminal · Cinematography, Director
- Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times · Director
- Blockbuster Where a Giant Monster Destroys a Town · Sound Recorder, Sound Recordist
- Mañanita · Writer
- Habambuhay: Remembering Philippine Cinema · Self
- The Oceans Are the Real Continents · Executive producer, Music
- 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille · Director
- The Halt · Director, Production Design
- Journey · Director, Screenplay
- Ave · Story
- A Short History of a Few Bad Things · Songs
- The Boy Who Chose the Earth · Director, Writer
- Season of the Devil · Director, Writer
- Lily · Drunk Man
- The Woman Who Left · Director, Screenplay
- Singing in Graveyards · Paul
- The Day Before the End · Writer, Director
- A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery · Producer, Director
- Death in the Land of Encantos · Director, Writer
- Salvage · Nilalang
- The Last Pinoy Action King · Self
- Wake (Subic) · Music
- Fragment · Director, Writer
- Salamat sa Alaala · Self
- Lorna · Rocky
- Storm Children · Director, Cinematography
- From What Is Before · Director, Editing
- Echoserang Frog · Self
- Norte, the End of History · Screenplay, Editing
- Alamat ni China Doll · Screenplay
- Prologue to the Great Desaparecido · Director, Writer
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded · Director, Cinematography
- Colossal · Shaman
- Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget · Writer, Director
- Jingle lang ang Pahina
- Florentina Hubaldo, CTE · Screenplay, Director
- The Great Cinema Party
- Jeonju Digital Project 2012
- Century of Birthing · Director, Writer
- Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution · Guitarist (Uncredited), Screenplay
- Return to Manila: Filipino Cinema · Self
- Independencia · Townspeople
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement · Self
- Butterflies Have No Memory · Director, Writer
- Manila Skies
- Manila · Director
- Purgatorio · Director
- Melancholia · Director, Cinematography
- Death in the Land of Encantos · Director, Screenplay
- Green Rocking Chair
- Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess · Editing, Director
- Image Nation · Writer, Director
- Todo Todo Teros · Self
- Evolution of a Filipino Family · Screenplay, Director
- Headless
- Jesus the Revolutionary · Director, Screenplay
- Batang West Side · Director, Screenplay
- Naked Under the Moon · Screenplay, Director
- Burger Boys · Screenplay, Director
- Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion · Director, Screenplay