From What Is Before
Memories of cataclysm.
Directed by Lav Diaz
Produced by Sine Olivia Pilipinas
A haunting, deliberately ambiguous meditation on collective trauma and the blurring of personal and political violence during the Philippines' descent into martial law.
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under Martial Law.
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