Lav Diaz on location. © the artist
A change to the previously advertised work in progress film Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution, we are delighted to present his short two-hour feature Heremias Book II. This striking film introduces one of Lav's principle characters, the timid yet resolute craftsman and vendor Heremias. The film cuts between the story of the boy Heremias growing up in isolation in a leprosy colony and the adult Heremias who return to the island of his childhood. As critic May Adadol Ingawanij has argued "Nowhere more powerfully than the closing minutes of Heremias Book II does cinema show how much it can do, with so little."
This UK debut focuses on recent work. Diaz is present throughout the weekend for discussion with curator George Clark and critic May Adadol Ingawanij.
Part of Slow Cinema Weekend
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£5 / £3.50
Tickets available on the door
Fri 9 March, 9.30pm-11pm
Stepney Bank
Newcastle NE1 2NP
starandshadow.org.uk
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