對以寫實為基調的紀錄片,以及擁有複雜命運的菲律賓來說,「必須虛構」意味深長,也代表著凝視殘酷現實時不得不的美學選擇。
 
本單元以11個子題為引,挑選1980年代至近年共46部作品,經典與奇作並置,強調創作者以個人筆觸和多樣形式,描繪所見所聞所思,呈現無法以「國家」簡化的多重面貌,加乘上時間與空間的跨度,令歷史、文化、民俗、信仰、種族、地理,變得多義且多樣。在這些生猛創作的內核之中,名為菲律賓的喧囂真實呼之欲出。
 
協同策展:墨夫・艾斯皮納
 
協辦單位:財團法人文化臺灣基金會 tctf_logo_heng_shi_.jpg

影展夥伴:SEA plateaus logo_sea_plateaus_horizontal.png 

代表圖片
焦點專題|必須虛構:後國族菲律賓紀錄片的多樣真實

Sa Maynila

This black and white film presents an impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis. Digital transfer courtesy c/o Mowelfund Film Institute and Philippine Film Archive.

 

*************

Juan Gapang (Johnny Crawl)

A man performs by crawling into the streets of Metro Manila wearing only a wig, white tights, and white body paints. Digital transfer courtesy c/o Mowelfund Film Institute and Asian Film Archive.

 

*************

Cesar Asar

Starting out as a cartoonist for Jingle Magazine, Roxlee became a household name through the widely popular 'Cesar Asar' strip for Manila Bulletin. This film version includes footage from the short film Tito's Wedding, vividly portraying an aimless, idle life set in the small town in the Philippines, interwoven with keen observation on the social-political dilemma of the nation.

#Laughing til It Hurts (Roxlee's Social Comedy in the 1990s)

Missing Cassettes, or Things Lost When Moving

Mervine AQUINO and his mother rummage into unpacked boxes of belongings, looking for their old home video tapes. Only one tape is found. Missing Cassettes salvages what remains of video memories, seeking to make sense of moments now obsolete and barely playable.

#Movement, Memory and Monument

Tronong Puti (White Throne)

A satire on the beneficial attributes of the chamber pot.

#Animation and Action

The Island at the End of the World

With an eye to both landscape and history, the film tracks MARTIN's inquiry into the rural community of Itbayat, one of the farthest-flung islands in the Philippine archipelago. Made during MARTIN's last year in film school, the result is an extraordinarily intimate, naturalistic diary-documentary that never lags behind, or runs ahead of, its viewers.

#Unruly Geographies

Basal Banar (Sacred Ritual of Truth)

SOLITO returns to his hometown on Palawan Island and documents the sacred rituals and daily lives of its people, as the intrusion of multinational corporations and other forces constantly threatens the islanders' way of life. The echoes of percussion and rhythm of the images unite harmoniously, unveiling a personal rediscovery of indigenous roots in Southern Palawan.

#Unruly Geographies

Class Picture

A lyrical, nostalgic piece evoking faded memories and the archetypal class picture, develops alongside the crashing of waves on a beach in the background.

#Film Communities at Different Times

A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off

Conducting a series of studies on bird migration inspired by the migration experience of filmmaker's father, the film aims to deal with a sense of mobility in various forms and times.

#Film Communities at Different Times

Botika Bituka

Focusing on popular Filipino tongue-twisting words 'botika' (drug or pharmaceutical store) and 'bituka' (intestine), the film visualises their correlation in social, economic, and political context.

#Film Communities at Different Times

Focus Programme|Necessary Fictions: Negotiating Realities in Post-national Philippine Documentaries

Given the complexity of the history of the Philippines, when Philippines documentaries rooted in realism are bridged with the idea of 'necessary fiction', nuanced meanings can be observed in such aesthetic choices which manifest an urgent necessity in the face of cruel reality.

This program includes 11 themes, and 46 films from the 1980 onwards, juxtaposing classics and more recent films, emphasising filmmakers' distinctive personal touches in a wide range of forms, and presenting multiple aspects of a nation that rejects over-simplification. Through exploration in history, geography, culture, folklore, religion, and race spanning time and space, a bursting uproar named 'Philippines' arises among these collective oeuvres.

Co-curator: Merv ESPINA

Supported by tctf_logo_heng_shi_.jpg  logo_sea_plateaus_horizontal.png 

Films

A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off

A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off

2020
Philippines
18min
希林.施諾
Shireen SENO

ABCD

ABCD

1985
Philippines
5min
羅克斯李
Roxlee

Anak Araw (Albino)

Anak Araw (Albino)

2012
Philippines
63min
詹姆.倫貝拉
Gym LUMBERA

Ars Colonia

Ars Colonia

2011
Philippines
1min
拉亞.馬丁
Raya MARTIN

Baguio Address No. 10

Baguio Address No. 10

2018
Philippines
15min
莫文.艾奎諾
Mervine AQUINO

Basal Banar (Sacred Ritual of Truth)

Basal Banar (Sacred Ritual of Truth)

2002
Philippines
116min
奧拉烏.索里托
Auraeus SOLITO (Kanakan-Balintagos)

Beyond the Walls of Prison

Beyond the Walls of Prison

1987
Philippines
60min
亞洲視野
Asia Visions

Bontoc Eulogy

Bontoc Eulogy

1995
Philippines, United States
58min
馬龍.芬堤斯
Marlon FUENTES

Books

Books

1992
Philippines
5min
路易斯.奎瑞那, 東那.沙勒斯
Luis QUIRINO, Donna SALES

Botika Bituka

Botika Bituka

1987
Philippines
2min
西薩.賀南多
Cesar HERNANDO

Boxing in the Philippine Islands

Boxing in the Philippine Islands

2011
Philippines
5min
拉亞.馬丁
Raya MARTIN

Ceasefire: Countrysides

Ceasefire: Countrysides

Philippines
10min
伊萊.蓋伊三世
Eli GUIEB III

Cesar Asar

Cesar Asar

1998
Philippines
85min
羅克斯李
Roxlee

Class Picture

Class Picture

2012
Philippines
4min
叔叔阿姨
Tito & Tita

Disintegration 93-96

Disintegration 93-96

2017
Philippines
6min
米可.瑞維雷薩
Miko REVEREZA

Droga!

Droga!

2014
Philippines
8min
米可.瑞維雷薩
Miko REVEREZA

Eternity

Eternity

1982
Philippines
25min
雷蒙.瑞德
Raymond RED

flower codec lotus

flower codec lotus

2018
Philippines
5min
吉奧.林高
Gio LINGAO

From the Dark Depths

From the Dark Depths

2017
Philippines
27min
奇里.黛蓮娜
Kiri DALENA

Independencia

Independencia

2009
France, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines
77min
拉亞.馬丁
Raya MARTIN

Inserts

Inserts

1985
Philippines
7min
羅克斯李
Roxlee

Juan Gapang (Johnny Crawl)

Juan Gapang (Johnny Crawl)

1987
Philippines
6min
羅克斯李 , 葉耶.卡德隆, 艾特.馬庫蘭噶
Roxlee, Yeye CALDERON, At MACULANGAN

Kano: An American and His Harem

Kano: An American and His Harem

2010
Philippines
80min
蒙絲特.希門尼斯
Monster JIMENEZ

Kordilyera Images

Kordilyera Images

1986
Philippines
6min
古柏.羅沙伯
Cooper RESABAL

Missing Cassettes, or Things Lost When Moving

Missing Cassettes, or Things Lost When Moving

2018
Philippines
8min
莫文.艾奎諾
Mervine AQUINO

Mix One and Two

Mix One and Two

1990
Philippines
5min
羅克斯李
Roxlee

Murang Araw

Murang Araw

1990
Philippines
4min
葉耶.卡爾德龍
Yeye CALDERON

Naglipana ang mga Mata (A Swarm of Eyes)

Naglipana ang mga Mata (A Swarm of Eyes)

2020
Philippines
26min
潔兒.曼多薩
Jael MENDOZA

Nailed

Nailed

1992
Philippines, United States
50min
安琪.維拉斯科.蕭
Angel Velasco SHAW

Oliver

Oliver

1983
Philippines
38min
尼克.迪奧坎波
Nick DEOCAMPO

Red Saga

Red Saga

2004
Philippines
16min
奇里.黛蓮娜
Kiri DALENA

Sa Maynila

Sa Maynila

1988
Philippines
7min
麥可.阿卡查藍, 喬.阿堤扎, 維克.巴坎尼, 瑞基.歐蘭拉納, 亞倫.希拉瑞歐
Mike ALCAZAREN, Jo ATIENZA, Vic BACANI, Ricky ORELLANA, Allan HILARIO

SPIT/OPTIK

SPIT/OPTIK

1988
Philippines
10min
羅克斯李 , 葉耶.卡德隆, 艾特.馬庫蘭噶
Roxlee, Yeye CALDERON, At MACULANGAN

Storm Children, Book One

Storm Children, Book One

2014
Philippines
143min
拉夫.迪亞茲
Lav DIAZ

Study on Lukas in Lukas the Strange

Study on Lukas in Lukas the Strange

2013
Philippines
4min
約翰.托雷斯
John TORRES

The Great Smoke

The Great Smoke

1984
Philippines
8min
摩李, 羅克斯李
MonLee, Roxlee

The Island at the End of the World

The Island at the End of the World

2004
Philippines
107min
拉亞.馬丁
Raya MARTIN

The Moon Is Not Ours

The Moon Is Not Ours

2011
Philippines
4min
瓊恩.雷贊
Jon LAZAM

The Retrochronological Transfer of Information

The Retrochronological Transfer of Information

1994
Philippines
11min
泰德.埃米塔諾
Tad ERMITAÑO

Tito's Wedding

Tito's Wedding

1993
Philippines
10min
羅克斯李
Roxlee

To Pick a Flower

To Pick a Flower

2021
Philippines
17min
希林.施諾
Shireen SENO

Tondo, Beloved

Tondo, Beloved

2011
Philippines
76min
珠兒.馬拉南
Jewel MARANAN

Track Projections

Track Projections

2007
Philippines
6min
拉亞.馬丁
Raya MARTIN

Tronong Puti (White Throne)

Tronong Puti (White Throne)

1983
Philippines
7min
羅克斯李
Ted ARAGO、Roxlee

War Is a Tender Thing

War Is a Tender Thing

2013
Philippines
71min
阿嘉妮・阿盧帕克
Adjani ARUMPAC

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

1994
Philippines
170min
奇拉.塔西米克
Kidlat TAHIMIK
Subscribe to RSS - 焦點專題|必須虛構:後國族菲律賓紀錄片的多樣真實