Movie Parade at UST, 2011 Grand Quadricentennial Celebration (1611-2011)

                                    Movie Parade at UST, 2011

 Grand Quadricentennial Celebration (1611-2011)

The Quadricentennial Celebration of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) was a multi-year series of religious, cultural, academic, and infrastructural events held from December 18, 2009, to January 27, 2012, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the pontifical university's founding on April 28, 1611, by Archbishop Miguel de Benavides, O.P., as Asia's oldest existing institution of higher learning.[1][2] As the largest Catholic university in the world by enrollment on a single campus and a key center of Dominican scholarship, the celebration emphasized UST's enduring mission to integrate faith, reason, and service, while highlighting its historical role in Philippine education, including as the sole higher learning institution during Spanish colonial rule and its designation as a National Historical Landmark. AI Overview
                      

     Photographs and Verse by Abercio V Rotor, PhD

Professor (Retired), UST Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Letters

     

                              Local movie on the life of Rizal, an alumnus of UST                                     

Movies took over the stage,

created make-believe players;

from arena to theaters,

cinema to home screen

these hundred years.

How technology spanned

live drama and celluloid,

Charlie Chaplin and Lucas,

Carl Jung and Simon Freud,

the young and the very old.

Hollywood to Bollywood,

white actors to colored,

aristocracy giving way

to realism on the road,

in stories simply told.

This is not all. It is just

the start of the future

which we live in today -

postmodern culture

in cyber adventure.

Movies, movies, movies

defy classification,

on Internet, television,

from studio to home video,

AI and virtual animation.

Quo vadis, movie?

where are you headed for?

for whom are you made

as we had known before,

at the local shore?

Is this a sign of demise,

of the movie, the classical,

movie, the great adventure,

movie, the historical,

true and ideal?

Movie does not speak,

or we just can't hear anymore,

under the heap of this strayed art

yearning not for more,

but for some quality score. ~

A popular movie animae

Scary theme, musical treatment

Witches walk the campus

Alice in Wonderland

"Good triumphs over evil."

Shrek and Company

2012 - Year of the Dragon

Pirates of the Caribbean

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The University of Santo Tomas (UST) in the Philippines is known as Asia's oldest university (founded 1611), a prestigious Catholic research institution with Pontifical and Royal titles, a massive campus, and a reputation for producing influential alumni, strong performance in licensure exams, and vibrant cultural life, especially its dance troupes like Salinggawi. AI Overview