French Filipino Film Starring Gloria Diaz to be Featured in Cannes Classics

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A restoration of the 1982 French-Filipino film Cinq et la peau (Five and the Skin) starring Gloria Diaz, Bembol Roco, Philip Salvador and Joel Lamangan will be screened at Cannes Classics in the 71st Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2018. The whole film was entirely shot in the Philippines and was featured in the Cannes' Un Certain Regard 36 years ago.

Five and the Skin tells the story of Ivan, a writer who returns to Manila aimlessly wandering from one encounter to another in the metropolis in search of himself
The film’s director, Pierre Rissien, whom they call the Man of Cannes passed away last May 5, 2018 days beforewhere he was supposed to introduce the film during Cannes Directors' Fortnight. He is a Cannes Adviser, an influential Cinephile and Cannes Film Scout before he died.

Rissien was also a known supporter of Philippine Cinema and is responsible for a number of Filipino films making it to Festival de Cannes, including Lino Brocka's Insiang. He also visited the Philippines to attend several of FDCP's events, the last event being the World Premiere Film Festival in 2016.

American Ninja Warrior to Premiere Brand New Season on AXN

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More thrills and heart-pounding moments are in store when the popular reality competition series American Ninja Warrior returns this May on AXN.

In the latest season, competitors push their fighting forms to the limit as they take on the world’s most challenging obstacle courses - including 28 new obstacles - in the qualifying rounds held in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, and Philadelphia.

Retaining the same format, all competitors must finish the course or be in the top 30 in the qualifying stages to enter the city finals.
As in the past, the top competitors advance to the national finals in Las Vegas, where the grueling Mt. Midoriyama will be the final course of the competition.

This season, a total of 500 competitors attempt to become only the second American Ninja Warrior champion, after 33-year-old busboy-turned-professional rock climber Isaac Caldiero made history and was crowned the first ever winner in Season 7,  taking home the $1 million grand prize.

Hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila return for their seventh and fourth seasons, respectively, alongside sideline reporter Kristine Leahy who returns for her second season. 

American Ninja Warrior Season 8 premieres on May 15 and airs from Monday to Friday at 7:05pm.


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Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal: Mac Andre Arboleda's First Solo Exhibit

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Mac Andre Arboleda's first solo exhibit "Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" runs until May 17 at Cafe Berde, Los Baños, Philippines. The exhibition, which features 15 photographs, opened last April 26, with a short program with guest reactors Om Velasco and Sarah Koo. 

In the exhibition "Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal", Arboleda shows offbeat images of mundane objects from his bedroom: electric fan, calendars, clotheshangers by the window, books and memorabilia on shelves; and at the same time, denying their objectness and giving a sense of discomfort and nausea. 

Mac Andre Arboleda, 23, also known as "Asshulz" on the Internet, makes web comics, zines, short films, and organizes art events around the South. He is the author of photozines "The Face of a Marcos Apologist", "Noah's Ark", and "Fictional Instagram Feeds", which make use of the Internet & other media to make photographs. He is a Development Communication student in the University of the Philippines Los Baños, member of art collective Magpies Press and is founder of the biannual zine expo "Zine Orgy". Last year, he won the Pelikultura Best Film Award for his #BuhayElbi entry "Boy Dyaryo." 

Arboleda said that "Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" was inspired by ideas of "looking," how one's personal space could appear or feel different after a long session of just staring around. "There's this Internet joke that cats are always tripping on acid because they like to stare at blank walls." According to him, his goal was to capture the look and the feeling of being so bored that you start seeing things in a new perspective.

"Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" requires that the pictures be stared at longer and more carefully, so much so that boredom allows the objects and the spaces in between to be seen as different parts of different bodies altogether, just as the artist’s own everyday and prolonged gaze allowed him to look at his own room differently. At a time when digital media and the internet’s fetish for the new and instant no longer allows staring at a fixed surface in boredom, the exhibit is an unassuming invitation to return to the appreciation of the picture through the rudimentary act of staring.   

"Pag Tumitig Nang Matagal" runs from April 26-May 17, 2018 at Cafe Berde, Los Baños, Laguna. Cafe Berde is open everyday from 10AM to 8PM.