Visionary Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz's films centre around life in rural Philippines. Considered a leader his field, Diaz's films are audience-testing, running between four to nine hours. In an interview, Diaz commented,

"The concept of time was imposed by the West, the Spanish. Go to work at nine, go home at five… Filipinos don’t actually follow that. People think it’s indolent, or lazy. It’s not. This is our culture." - Diaz.

Patrick Cruz cites this in the title of his 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Prize-winning work, 'Time Allergy',

"We were kind of allergic to this idea of modernity and modernization." - Cruz.

At a four hour run time, Diaz's 2013 adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, End of History), is his shortest film yet.

Join us on April 30th at 6pm at Bestway (21 E Pender St.) for a rare screening of this slow burning epic.



This screening is organized in conjunction with Patrick Cruz's ongoing exhibition at Centre A, Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise).