When we eat, we often do it together. As we take in food that our bodies need, we replenish our souls with conversations of where our day has gone.
But the times are strife. And we can't always be together in the primordial act of eating/existing. So we find that some of our conversations have ended.
Pork-free Pinakbet, Adobong Sitaw, and Tortang Talong are being prepared on a half-dressed table as crooked as the systems in place that ought to allow all Filipinos to eat well.
As we eat today with our friends and families, many still are starving.
DIRI TA NAUNDANG
(HALF OF OUR CONVERSATIONS HAVE GONE), 2022
Site-specific installation, no sound, 5 min 6 sec looped video, single channel, projection mapping.
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An unknown narrator searches for a lingkoranan, an upoan, a chair. Instead finds those who have the seat of power, and the rest who are left standing.
Lingkod in Binisaya means to sit. Lingkod in Tagalog means to serve.
LINGKOD: APPARITION, 2023 (SERIES 1 OF 2)
Single channel, no sound, 4 min 17 sec looped video
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A poetic documentary made from footage of several years of travel around Mindanao, Philippines. It highlights the region around the ancient lake, Lake Lanao, as it reels from a terrorist attack in 2017.
MGA GIPAAMBIT GIKAN SA TUBIG
(WHISPERS FROM THE WATERS OF
MINDANAO) (2021)
Story, director, editor, producer
British Council Philippines
Co-producer
CCP Gawad Alternatibo - Documentary
Winner, 3rd Place
World Premiere
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In an undisclosed period of Philippine history, people take to the streets to support a mysterious procedure known only to "liberate the people"
WE DO NOT EXIST HERE (2020)
Story, director, editor, producer,
production design
National Commission for Culture and the Arts
Co-producer
Chuncheon Sci-fi Film Festival, South Korea
World Premiere