Philippine Film

• What is it that Philippine documentary does, and what does it claim to do?
• Can objectivity be segregate from subjectivity?

The Philippine film studios will consider the technical and the ideological, paying attention, for instance, to the effect on details of the radical engaged documentaries of the 1960s and 1970s, the Asian feminist film movement of the 1970s and the centrality of race and sexuality in the documentaries of the 1990s. What really effect has the invention of the camcorder had on our sense of documentary form? How does the Filipino filmmaker's appearance center-stage influence our experience? Extensive information reading and outside viewing required, with two short documents and one final paper required. Note that a 9 minutes documentary (with a short written statement) may be substituted for the Philippine film final paper upon approval of its subject.