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Allen Rey V.

Porsuelo

G-11 IT 12

Adviser: Ma’am Elfe Cartagena

Sub. Teacher: Sir. Joff Rey Diasnes

PERFORMANCE TASK- ESSAY 750-1K WORDS

The Philippines' cinema began on August 31, 1897, when the first moving pictures were shown in the
country at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila. Local scenes were shot on film for the first time the
following year by a Spaniard, Antonio Ramos, using the Lumiere Cinematograph. While most early
filmmakers and producers in the country were mostly wealthy enterprising foreigners and expatriates,
Filipino filmmaker José Nepomuceno’s Dalagang Bukid (Country Maiden), based on a popular musical
play, was the first movie made and shown on September 12, 1919. New technologies and the
expansion of media culture that such technologies encouraged affected the history of film in the latter
half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. The widespread adoption of the
videocassette recorder (VCR) in the 1980s, for example, opened up new opportunities for the
dissemination of films as videocassettes, allowing for greater circulation and easier access to works
created all over the world. Similarly, new cable and satellite television networks that delivered
material directly to homes generated new markets for film distribution as well as new revenue
streams for filmmakers. More filmmakers embraced video technology to save production costs when
higher-quality video cameras became available, eventually transferring the image to film stock for
theater presentation.The spread and increasing capabilities of computer animation, as well as digital
video cameras and DVDs (digital video discs), accelerated those very same trends inside the following
years, with the computer becoming a new production unit in filmmaking and the Internet becoming a
site for film distribution and exhibition. As a result of these shifts, filmmakers from countries that
were previously underrepresented in international film culture ,particularly those from the Philippines
appeared on the global stage.

Now let’s talk about the similarities and difference of a designated 21 st Century Filipino Movies and
Movies earlier from that period. First lets discuss about the movie before 21 st century modern movies.
Most films made in the Philippines at that era or time are in Tagalog language. Sex and violence are
major themes in those films, which are often adaptations of American screen productions. American
films are popular and readily available, and so high-quality Filipino films have been slow to develop. In
the year 1970s and 1980s Filipino film industry were considered turbulent, bringing both positives and
negatives changes. The film or movies in this period bow dealt with serious topics following the Marial
Law Era. In addition, action and sex films are developed further introducing more explicit pictures.
These years also brought the arrival of alternative or independent cimema in the Philippines.

Independent Filipino cinema has existed almost as long as commercialized cinema, but it has received
less attention and thus has fewer historical accounts. Many independent films depict actual societal
events through the authentic voices of the people, but these films are frequently suppressed due to
their revelations about social and political realities, or they are marginalized due to their
cinematography. These films can also provide valuable historical information at times. Documentaries
about the Philippines were popular in the early days of alternative cinema. Jose Nepomuceno was
initially commissioned to create documentaries about the richest industries in the Philippines, the
most well-known of which was the hemp industry. OldManila,Tres Sangganos, Intramuros, Jose Rizal,
March of the Time Series: The Philippines, and Woodcarving in the Philippines are some other
alternative films made between 1920 and 1955. While movies nowadays has the advantages because
of high tech devices that film makers currently using to produce or create more high quality movie like
Hollywood Movies. However, we appear to be trapped in a vicious cycle of genres, plots,
characterization, and cinematic styles. We are unconsciously, or rather consciously, imitating and
plagiarizing from far more popular American films. And when we’re not copying, we’re reverting to
our old habits. According to recent massacre films, teen-oriented romantic comedies, and anatomy-
baring sex flicks, Philippine cinema appears to be on a downward spiral. Nonetheless, some films have
been commercially and critically successful. Rizal (1998), for example, was a commercial and critical
success for Diaz-Abaya. Hopefully, Philippine cinema in the new millennium will produce films that are
as good as or better than those that came before it.

As a result, the Philippine film industry, or Philippine cinema, appears to have completed a full circle:
it is in the process of refining and formulating its own conventions while also coming into close
contact with the ferment in other arts and, at the same time, the serious critical attention and concern
of people with a broader interest in culture. This is unavoidable; as an art form, cinema in the
Philippines can no longer remain isolated from the rest of the world. Philippine cinema will have to
evolve faster, embracing new platforms, revisiting templates and traditions, and pursuing more daring
perspectives. Hopefully, Philippine cinema in the new millennium will produce films that are as good
as or better than those that came before it.

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