Film

From What Is Before

Name: From What Is Before
Director: Lav Diaz
Released: 2014
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Hazel Orencio, Karenina Haniel, Reynan Abcede

2014 · 338 min · ★ 8.2 · Dir. Lav Diaz

From the Latin phrase “a priori”, used in Western philosophy as knowledge independent of all particular experiences, an argument/justification on the essentiality of truth that is easily glea

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.