‘Lino Brocka – National Anarchist'

As part of the retrospective dedicated to Lino Brocka, the greatest figure in Filipino filmmaking, at DocLisboa 2026, CAM is hosting ‘Lino Brocka – National Anarchist’, a film-concert by the Filipino artist, filmmaker and poet Khavn De La Cruz. In the context of the partnership between DocLisboa 2026 and the Cinemateca Portuguesa, CAM is presenting the film-concert Lino Brocka – National Anarchist (2023) which is made up of archive images extracted from the 64 films of Lino Brocka (1939–1991): VHS tapes, low-quality copies from YouTube, and decomposing images. All these elements are given a new life in a singular work that is screened in silence. The film-concert by the Filipino artist, filmmaker and poet Khavn Da La Cruz (1973) presents a different kind of audiovisual show, accompanied live by improvised piano. Instead of separating art and history, this proposal seeks to merge cinema, music and political memory in a single gesture. Through a performative experience, where sound and image appear together, it revives the enduring impact of a leading director of Asian cinema. Khavn De La Cruz, who accompanies this screening, plays an entirely improvised score for solo piano, uninterrupted and in real time, inspired by Brocka’s favourite song, What I Did for Love , from the musical A Chorus Line . Despite this, the melodic material is original and developed at the time of the performance. A key figure in Asian cinema, Lino Brocka used film as a mechanism to denounce corruption…