‘Batang West Side’ at the MoMA

A scene from Batang West Side INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s “Batang West Side” will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City on Nov. 9, 2 p.m. The screening of a newly color-corrected 35-mm print of the film is part of the MoMA’s “To Save and Project” series. The film’s print was preserved and color-corrected by the Austrian Film Museum and the Synchro Film and Video Library in Vienna, in collaboration with Diaz. Bayani San Diego Jr.