Теоретик Евгений Былина — о дистопическом саунде детройт-техно и афрофутуристкой мифологии подводного государства Drexciya как инструментах деколонизации времени и производства новой субъективности
If André Bazin once dreamed of a “myth of total cinema” in which the image would finally coincide perfectly with reality, *The Benefactress* is the nightmare fulfilment of that myth.
Through his transgressive lens, Philippine cinema becomes a universal mirror, compelling us to confront what it means to exist—and to persist—in the face of the void.
To dismiss Dora’s cinema as merely “sick” or “depraved” is to miss the point, and perhaps to engage in the very moral comfort that his films are designed to destroy.