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Wake (Subic) (2015)
Directed by John Gianvito
Documentary · 4h 37m
First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the first part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) was released in 2010. Collectively this nine-hour essay explores circumstances of toxic contamination around the former US military bases in the Philippines as the locus for a meditation on historical amnesia, colonial privilege, and the consequences of unchecked militarism. Interweaving both cinéma-vérité and interview footage of Filipino victims and their families, environmental spokespersons, and community activists, along with early photographic material pertaining to the Philippine-American War, partisan songs, historical texts, and landscape photography, both films are an attempt to construct a work capable of rendering some measure of this human and environmental tragedy and the complexities of its remedy.
Crew
- Director
- John Gianvito
Details
- Release date
- 2015-10-22
- Runtime
- 4h 37m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Tagalog
- Countries
- Philippines, United States of America