This episode was prompted after I discovered the exciting, incisive, and polemical book, Post-Dilawan Cinema and the Pandemic(2023) at the BLTX Small Press expo. We discuss Philippine Cinema through the lens of class struggle with the book's Author, Epoy Deyto. The conversation spans the issues of movie-going, how ph cinema alienates the poor, the ideological content of films, the intersections of politics and business in Philippine Cinema, and Metro Manila Film Festival.

You can find a digital copy of the book here:https://www.missingcodec.com/downloads/post-dilawan-cinema-and-the-pandemic/

You may also find a physical copy of the book from Shonenbat Collective here:https://www.facebook.com/ShonenBatCollective/

You may also find more of Epoy's writing in his blog: here:https://www.missingcodec.com/

You may also support small publishers at BLTX here:

https://www.facebook.com/xeroxography/

https://gantalapress.org/community/bltx/

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0:15 Intro

3:00 What inspired the book?

8:45 What is Cinemaralita?

12:20 Encounter with Teddy Co

15:30 Theory of Moviegoing/Boom and Bust

20:30 MMFF 2016 Background: Audience

24:30 What is post-dilawan Cinema

27:00 Franchising of Cinema

30:50 Cinema is an ecosystem

35:00 Dilawan Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology

42:30 Action Films and Violent Cinema

45:00 Cinema under Duterte

50:00 Daryl Yap and Vincentiments

54:00 Dilawan Neoliberalism

59:20 Depictions of the personal beyond Dilawan Cinema

1:04:00 FIlm's Epoy Likes?

1:06:00 What should PH Cinema be?

1:12:10 Did anything change since the book?

1:15:15 Hope in Ph Cinema

1:23:00 Exposing and Combatting Imperialism

1:29:00 Cinema for the masses

1:32:00 Where to find the book and epoy's other work?

1:34:15 Comments on MMFF and Cinema's comeback

1:38:00 MMFF and the issues with exhibitors

1:41:50 Recommendations