A breakup becomes a cinematic weapon against love stories themselves.
Doble Vista begins where the relationship between writer-videographer Javier and Lola, his object of romance, meets its end. The film explores a metafictional treatment taking its influences from Peter Wollen’s definition of CounterCinema as best exemplified by the films of Jean-Luc Godard.
Direction
Lañas weaponizes Godard's techniques against rom-com conventions.
Writing
Meta-narrative that interrogates its own creation in real-time.
Director
Nix Lañas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Filipino entry in the Counter-Cinema tradition, bridging Southeast Asian indie film with French New Wave theory.
The title's 'double' refers to both the split-screen technique and the duality of creator/destroyer that Javier embodies.
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