Chicago S Crash Course In Filipino Art Cinema Continues This Weekend With Kidlat Tahimik S I Am Furious Yellow

• I Am Furious Yellow

Yesterday I noted the upcoming screenings of Brillante Mendoza’s Thy Womb, rare opportunities (in Chicago, anyway) to catch up with one of the most controversial Filipino directors working today. Incidentally this weekend also brings a revival of a film by one of the most controversial Filipino directors of the 1970s and ’80s, Kidlat Tahimik. I Am Furious Yellow (1994) will screen from 16-millimeter at the Drake Hotel on Friday at 6 PM and Sunday at 4 PM as part of the Prak-sis New Media Art Festival, a three-day conference about artistic responses to the legacy of Cold War-era social upheaval in southeast Asia. Shot over 13 years, Yellow is a three-hour diary film about Tahimik’s experience of the 1980s and early ’90s, a period that saw the fall of the Marcos dictatorship as well as a cataclysmic earthquake that threw Manila into chaos. (It also features appearances from Dennis Hopper and Andrei Tarkovsky.)