By  Michael Guarneri

After From What is Before (2014), a personal recollection of «political cataclysm» Martial Law hitting the Philippines in the early Seventies, Lav Diaz’s new effort Storm Children – Book One tackles natural cataclysm «Yolanda», the tropical cyclone that struck the archipelago in November 2013, leaving thousands of victims and damage to the value of several billion pesos.