Fifty Shades of Philippine Art: Philippine Cinematic Art Art and I would sit down

and I would sit down with our mother

I remember enjoying Philippine folk dances and showing off native foods there as a teenager when we had guests from overseas

Gilda Cordero-Fernando (Publishing & Literature)

Lino Brocka (1939–1991) was one of Asia and the Global South’s most celebrated filmmakers

Marc Gaba’s "Shorelands" is built with lines from the first English translation of "El Filibusterismo

Fifty Shades of Philippine Art: Philippine Cinematic Art Art and I would sit downCinema is considered an artistic medium, but is it an art? During cinemas bourgeoning decades, Marxist critics argued that cinema cannot be art because it is first and foremost a commercial product. In their influential book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer depicted cinema as an instrument of capitalist control that withered imagination and spontaneity. Yet great art often seeks to be architectonic, to embrace other arts.