#probernalantibio

Make. One of many things I realize I want to continue to do, no matter what I end up doing full-time, is to make books. To plan them, and conceptualize them, and allow people the freedom to write what they might, and to edit carefully and kindly, and to get the book designed beautifully, and gather more creative people around its making, and to get it to as many people as possible, without having to fall prey to the unfair practices of big bookstore monopoly. Not easy, but doable, and certainly can be done better. Should get there soon enough. 📷taken at CCP Dream Theater by Vito. #probernalantibio, the #IshmaelBernal Anti-Memoir can be delivered to your doorstep! Email: [email protected] for details. 💋📖

Walang Dulo. Watched this again with the Nanay early this week and realized that this film still talks about the most important, relevant, and critical questions we need to be asking about filmmaking in particular, cultural work in general. Not bad for a movie made in 1971. Pagdating Sa Dulo was written and directed by #IshmaelBernal. It will be screened this Saturday, March 17, 3:00PM at the CCP. Copies of #ProBernalAntiBio will be for sale at the venue. Come through! PS: Look @chiiloyzagagibbs and @gabsgibbs! Your Lolo getting some eyeliner action as an actor playing an actor in a film! 🎬 #FilmPH #cinemaPH #SOFIA #NCCA #CCP

Reality. One of my favorite photos from the #IshmaelBernal Collection, because CR in daster and rollers, diyaryo and yosi in hand, and kape on the floor. SRSLY: ang ganda!😍 You get a print from the Bernal collection when you purchase #ProBernalAntiBio at @artbooksph, at #artfairphilippines, 5th level, the link carpark. You can choose among prints from Bernal films Nunal Sa Tubig, Himala, Relasyon, Working Girls, Manila By Night, Menor de Edad, or Salawahan. #booksPH #memoir #books #reading #readinglist #read #biography #filmPH #nationalartistforfilm

Memory. Tito Ronnie was the best seatmate ever while watching Ishmael Bernal’s “Pabling,” with so many side stories (hindi ako art director, propsman lang), and honesty (takot ako kay Ishma eh. kay Jorge rin), and insight (ang gusto ko kay Ishma, laging buo lahat ng setting, kung nasa kuwarto, kita mo yung buong kuwarto, ipapakita niya yung buong kuwarto), and laughter (may tshirt si Ishma na suot noon, white, nakasulat in blue: PAHIPO). But also memory. In one scene in Pabling a younger Ronnie appears on screen: “O, nandito pala ako!” Laughter ensues. The end. #RonnieLazaro #ProBernalAntiBio #IshmaelBernal #filmPH #cinemaPH #pelikula

“Greek God ka talaga!” — Mitch Valdes as matrona making himas the dibdib of William Martinez as her dance partner in “Pabling” (1981). @archivo1984 will be screening this classic tomorrow, 7pm! #ProBernalAntiBio will be there, too, with last copies from this batch! Come through!

Fume-French. @archivo1984 is doing Bernal for its Archivo Film Night, on Wednesday December 6, with a screening of Pabling, a showing of this Bernal interview, and some copies of ProBernal, AntiBio for selling. Come through! #probernal #probernalantibio #IshmaelBernal #NationalArtistForLiterature #filmPH #cinemaPH #pelikula

Balance. So many lessons learned from having inherited this book and rising to its occasion, but probably the best part is realizing #IshmaelBernal’s intellect and activism, his gayness and humanity, his life lived doing cultural work with eyes wide open, ready to compromise and rebel at every turn. So many lessons here for all of us who continue to navigate culture and capital in this country. #culturalworkPH #culturalworkiswork #ProBernalAntiBio #memoir #memoirs #booksPH #filmPH #pelikula #cinemaPH #NationalArtistsPH #NationalArtistForFilm

May nagmamando sa imprenta. #ProBernalAntiBio #IshmaelBernal #memoir #antimemoir #autobiography #filmPH #cinemaPH #NationalArtistForFilm