Images That Sweat

This article revisits the cinema of late Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka in order to erode distinction between realism and spectacle at play, still today, many discussions about political capacities moving image. The work is understood here as both realist escapist, agreement with other key non-Western filmmakers that anti-colonial Hollywoodian codes. author focuses analysis on expressive amalgamation employed by Macho Dancer (1988) argues this film develops a poetics sweat liquidity opening up spectatorial experience unexpected intensities; intensities invite us think feel more differently.