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Wake (Subic)

★ 6.0(3)20154h 37m

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Director: John Gianvito
Release date: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 4h 37m
Language: English
Status: Released
Country: Philippines

About Wake (Subic)

Wake (Subic) is a 2015 movie in the Documentary genre, directed by John Gianvito. It has a runtime of 4 hours 37 minutes. It holds an average rating of 6.0/10 from 3 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Wake (Subic) in Switzerland — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the ﬁrst part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) was released in 2010. Collectively this nine-hour essay explores circumstances of toxic contamination around the former US military bases in the Philippines as the locus for a meditation on historical amnesia, colonial privilege, and the consequences of unchecked militarism. Interweaving both cinéma-vérité and interview footage of Filipino victims and their families, environmental spokespersons, and community activists, along with early photographic material pertaining to the Philippine-American War, partisan songs, historical texts, and landscape photography, both ﬁlms are an attempt to construct a work capable of rendering some measure of this human and environmental tragedy and the complexities of its remedy.