Cesar Hernando, a giant of Philippine Cinema

It is quite a sad day as reports of Cesar Hernando’s passing has circulated across Facebook, and in the midst of the 100 years of Philippine Cinema, we have lost one of it’s greatest masters.

In his last work as a director, and his only full-length film ‘Gayuma‘ continuously brings forth his eye as a master of Production Design in this erotic supernatural thriller that centralizes on the allure of art and the characters it empowers.

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This morning, friends and colleagues who have worked closely with Cesar Hernando has expressed their gratitude and condolences as they considered him to be one of Philippine Cinema’s pillars not just in production design, but in the extensive knowledge he delivers to them and to his students.

He is best known as a production designer, having worked with other masters of Philippine Cinema such as Doy Del Mundo, Mike de Leon, Ishmael Bernal, and contemporaries like Raymond Red, Mes de Guzman and more. His style is known to showcase grit and added visual characterizations to the stories which makes his eye for detail a great companion to the greatest films ever made in Philippine Cinema.

In his collaboration with Mike de Leon, he has done one of the most memorable production designs with films such as Batch ’81 and Kisapmata, considering that these are both films that tackle crimes in Manila society, he perhaps took into memory his own experiences as a son of a policeman who often told stories of the crimes held in the metro with much detail.

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He was also a member of the Society of Film Archivists of the Philippines (SoFIA). This allowed him to empower the youth and that of existing Cinephiles of the journey of Philippine Cinema through the years. He had a one-man photography exhibit in 2011 during the Cinemalaya Film Festival called “Mula sa Mga Aninong Gumagalaw”, and ‘The Unseen‘ his solo exhibition in 2018 that covers his activism on censorship, as well as his sought-after film posters.

There’s not much details yet on his passing, but his contributions in Philippine Cinema will truly be remembered.

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Many thanks to this short but sweet article on Cesar Hernando, by Charlene Sawit- Esguerra here.

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