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Famous Filipino Furniture Designers

  • Ito Kish: Interior and furniture designer.

    • Known for tying together vertical figures with similar forms and designs in chairs and other furniture.

    • Example: Gregoria Lounge

  • Vito Selma: A Cebu native.

    • Furniture emphasizes wood grain and texture.

    • Lines are visible, curved, bent, or tied together to create rhythmic patterns suggesting movement, despite the pieces being stationary.

    • Elegance is a defining characteristic of his designs.

  • Kenneth Cobonpue: World-renowned, multi-awarded industrial designer.

    • Known for organic designs using natural fibers and materials.

    • Craftsmanship and design aim to transport the user to another world.

  • Niccolo Jose: Treats each furniture piece as an artwork.

    • Designs furniture in a style that fits the demand, movement, and measurements of the sitter.

  • Maria Erika S. Masalonga

    • Graduate of BS Industrial Design from Mapua Institute of Technology

    • Won first place at the Green Furniture Design Competition (Student Level).

    • Solace Rocking Chair, made of woven rattan and abaca rope with a recycled aluminum metal frame.

Ceramics, Pottery & Terra-Cotta Art

  • Jose Joya:

    • Painted ceramic plates featuring the mother and child.

    • Characters are Filipino, dressed in native clothing, with head covered with salakot and cloth.

  • Benedicto Cabrera (BenCab):

    • Painted Mother and Child on plate with 500 editions.

    • These were on display at Art Verite Gallery at the Art in the Park, Salcedo Village, Makati on March 22, 2015.

    • Did this to raise funds for Iloilo Central High School.

  • Jon Pettyjohn: famous for creative ceramics.

    • Has a huge collection of works and is known globally for his art.

    • Makes teacups, jars and other functional objects, always with creative artistic design which is never mass produced.

  • Mia Casal

    • Clay Ave’s Mia Casal does pottery in San Narciso, Zambales.

    • Describe her works as a deeply personal journey.

  • Hadrian Mendoza: Art Director at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington

    • stoneware potter

    • Likes making indigenous forms, including expressionist and abstract shapes.

    • A graduate of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.

    • recreates his “Virus” to reflect today’s troubled times.

FILM

Beginnings of Contemporary Film

  • Lino Brocka

    • One of the most influential and significant filmmakers in Philippine cinema history.

    • Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP)- dedicated to helping address issues confronting the country

    • Conventional love triangles, rape, and violent action

    • Works: Maynila, Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

  • Peque Gallaga

    • Directed the award-winning Oro, Plata, Mata and the famous Shake, Rattle and Roll I, II, III and IV and more than 20 other films.

    • Shake, Rattle and Roll in an anthology with 15 films from 1984 to 2014.

  • Ishmael Bernal

    • melodramas, particularly with feminist and moral issues.

    • CMMA Best Director Award (1983)

    • the Bronze Hugo Award in the Chicago International Film Festival (1983) for the movie Himala (1982).

  • Celso Ad Castillo

    • Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa

  • Marilou Diaz Abaya

    • Multi-awarded film director

    • Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo City

    • “Muro-Ami”

DIRECTORS OF THE NEW WAVE

  • Exposing relevant social topics or hybridizing Filipino topics with Western techniques.

  • Also called alternative filmmakers, these directors yearned for more creative freedom in their works.

Directors of the New Wave

  • Eric de Guia (Kidlat Tahimik)

    • Perfumed Nightmare (1977)

    • Turumba (1981)

    • Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015)

    • Bubong (Documentary)

    • FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin International Film Festival

    • Prince Claus Award

    • National Artist for Film (2018)

  • Raymond Red

    • Anino (2000)

    • Palme d’Or for Short Film (Anino, 2000 Cannes Film Festival)

    • Himpapawid (Manika Skies) (2009)

  • Nick De Ocampo

    • Oliver (1983)

    • Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (1986)

    • A Legacy of Violence (1990)

    • Multiple international festival citations

    • Fulbright Scholar

    • Known more for academic and historical contributions to Philippine cinema

  • Benito Bautista

    • Harana (2012)

    • Boundary (2011)

    • Best Documentary (Audience Award) - San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

  • Manny Reyes

    • Suwapings (1994) - a story of a citizen’s rebellion against Barrio Talong’s corrupt mayor whose plan was to dub a group of Filipino-Americans as hometown heroes if they donate a huge amount of money to him.