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.

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Manila-based artist-researcher Merv ESPINA is the co-curator of the focus programme on Philippine documentaries at TIDF 2022. He has been researching the history of the film workshops that the Goethe-Institut organized, predominantly in the Global South, from the mid-1980’s onwards. As an extended program of TIDF’s focus on the Philippine moving images, this screening includes selected works produced by these workshops between the mid-1980’s and early-1990’s.

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