Filipino Indie
APT8 Cinema
Presented as part of APT8, 'Filipino Indie' is a survey of independent and experimental digital filmmaking from the Philippines. The program highlights an artistic turn towards experimenting with documentary realism and the creation of hybrid forms of non-fiction and drama. The term documentary is treated as an expansive field; a wide assortment of material is included in the program — activist video and social media uploads are presented alongside more conventional feature films, documentaries and artist videos.
Co-curated with leading Filipino artist Yason Banal, the project comprises a screening program and a new video work by Banal titled AN UNTITLED EPISODE_ 2015. A visual essay drawing together a wide range of visual material, Banal's video screens in the cinema foyer throughout APT8 exhibition. For Banal, the work functions as 'an experimental curatorial essay for the screen, combining Super-8 film, chroma effect, still images, text, graphics, sound, a superstar actor and fragments of Philippine cinema, reality TV and art industry. Exploring document and abstraction, memory and movies, essay and performance — a discursive low-fi fantasy made realness.'
Yason Banal / Philippines b.1972 / AN UNTITLED EPISODE_ (still) 2015 / Single-channel video / Image courtesy and © Yason Banal
List of works
Bakit dilaw aug gitna ng bahag-hari? (Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?) 1980–94 | Dir. Kidlat Tahimik
Oliver 1983 | Dir. Nick Deocampo
Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song 1987 | Dir. Nick Deocampo
Bontoc Eulogy 1995 | Dir. Marlon Fuentes
Bayaning 3rd World (3rd World Hero) 1999 | Dir. Mike de Leon
Still Lives 1999 | Dir. Jon Red
Basal Banar sa dulo ng daigdig (Sacred Ritual of Truth) 2002 | Dir. Kanakan Balintagos
Alingawangaw ng mga Punglo (Echo of Bullets) 2003 | Dir. Southern Tagalog Exposure
Ang daan patungong kalimugtong (Road to Kalimugtong) 2005 | Dir. Mes de Guzman
Bunso: the Youngest 2005 | Dir. Ditsi Carolino
Kubrador (The Bet Collector) 2006 | Dir. Jeffrey Jeturian
Todo todo teros 2006 | Dir. John Torres
Endo 2007 | Dir. Jade Castro
Iskwaterpangk (Squatterpunk) 2007 | Dir. Khavn
Imburnal (Sewer) 2008 | Dir. Sherad Anthony Sanchez
Now Showing 2008 | Dir. Raya Martin
Independencia 2009 | Dir. Raya Martin
Kinatay 2009 | Dir. Brillante Mendoza
Next Attraction 2009 | Dir. Raya Martin
Ang ninanais (Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song) 2010 | Dir. John Torres
Memories of a Forgotten War 2010 | Dir. Sari Dalena, Camilla Griggers
Ang babae sa septic tank (The Woman in the Septic Tank) 2011 | Dir. Marlon Rivera
Big Boy 2011 | Dir. Shireen Seno
Tundong Magiliw: Pasaan isinisilang siyang mahirap? (Tondo Beloved: To What are the Poor Born?) 2011 | Dir. Jewel Maranan
Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakba (Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey) 2012 | Dir. Khavn
Pascalina 2012 | Dir. Pam Miras
Anak Araw (Albino) 2013 | Dir. Gym Lumbera
The Guerrilla is a Poet 2013 | Dir. Kiri Dalena, Sari Dalena
Reptilia in Suburbia 2013 | Dir. Timmy Harn
Bukas na lang, sapagkat gabi na (Leave It for Tomorrow, for Night Has Fallen) 2014 | Dir. Jet Leyco
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore 2014 | Dir. Khavn
Walang rape sa Bontok (Bontok, Rapeless) 2014 | Dir. Lester Valle
Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III 2015 | Dir. Kidlat Tahimik
Portraits of Mosquito Press 2015 | Dir. JL Burgos
Taklub (Trap) 2015 | Dir. Brillante Mendoza
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