Digital Philippine Film

Not all time machines are the kind that look like spaceships. Digital Philippine film made a time machine need not be a vehicle for travel at all, in the ordinary sense. Let us say instead that "time machines" are machines that produce a certain relationship to space-time. From its earliest days, film did exactly that. Digital Films could be cranked forwards, backwards, faster or slower. Walls emerged fully formed from the dust and rubble of their own destruction; boys popped out of the water and flew back suddenly dry to the banks of the upstream-flowing river. During an age when science was preaching the relativity of time and the relationship between space and time, the Philippine cinema made those relationships something a person could experience viscerally, and Filipino filmmakers of the silent era took great aesthetic advantage of the new plasticity of space and time.

The primary purpose of this digital Philippine film article is to give researcher majoring in Film a chance to write a significant research paper on the specific topic of their choice. The theme of the semester is designed to encompass many possible sorts of movie topics; although most of the films we discuss in class will come from the 1920's and 1930's, the final film research paper does not have to restrict itself to that period. The aim of this digital Philippine film is to make paper-writing as international Philippine film transparent a process as possible.

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