Cinematic Archives and the Marcos Regime

Abstract

The study revisits the discourses surrounding films about former President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr’s. regime and proposes the employment of the cinematicarchive. This study specifically contends that the films about the Marcos Sr. regime—from 1965 to 2023—must be collected, recorded, and be publicly exposed to resist dictatorial control, historical denialism, revisionism, and distortion. It argues for the necessity of these films to be placed in an archive that acts as a repository that preserves the people’s memory of the atrocities of the regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos. Thus, the archive plays a critical role in countering the Marcosian narrative that continues to persist.