Raya Martin
The End of Cinema: La última película
By Phil Coldiron | | CS56, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Phil Coldiron What comes at the end of cinema? Not what comes after cinema—a good question for marketing gurus like Spielberg and Lucas and Cameron to lock themselves in a room and argue over until they expire, choking on their own hot air—but right there at the end, in death tranquil or terrifying or…
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Raya Martin
By Antoine Thirion | | 50 Best FIlmmakers Under 50, CS50, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Antoine Thirion Discovering Raya Martin’s work inevitably went hand in hand with questions about his age. People were impressed that such a young director (he was born in Manila in 1984) hadn’t used short films as a simple springboard for features, but dared to lay the foundations for several trilogies: one about cinema (Now…
Read More The Decade in Review | Raya Martin
By Raya Martin | | CS42, The Decade In Review
Everything is told, but nothing was ever written. The decade closed like a baffling movie ending: film critics Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc were shot dead during a robbery in the former’s home in Manila. In addition to being one of the few defenders of true independent cinema in the region, Tioseco was also the…
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