Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
TAHIMIK's magnum opus is an epic film diary spanning the 1980s, as the filmmaker teamed up with his eldest son to make their own 'spaghetti western' with their 'spaghetti machine'. The decade-long...
War Is a Tender Thing
Through her own family's memories of struggle, Adjani unravels the story of the war-torn Southern Philippines as an endless attempt at survival and adaptation to state policies that disregard the...
Independencia
In the early 20th century Philippines, the sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded...
The Retrochronological Transfer of Information
Inspired by the works of the physicist Subrahmanyan CHANDRASEKHAR and the psychologist Carl JUNG, this 16mm film documents and embodies a modern-day scientist's attempt to communicate with José RIZAL...
Bontoc Eulogy
As a personal story about the Filipino experience at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, the film unfolds from the perspective of two characters—a Filipino immigrant in America and an lgorot warrior...
To Pick a Flower
A video essay explores the transformation and commodification of nature through archival photographs from the American colonial occupation of the Philippines in the first half of the 20th century....
Tondo, Beloved
To what is the poor born? The film depicts the underlying hostilities between life and landscape in the expanding international port of Manila. Four lives unfold in micro-narratives of birth, youth,...
Storm Children, Book One
The Philippines is the most storm-battered country in the world. In 2013 Typhoon Yolanda, considered the strongest storm in history, struck the Philippines, leaving in its path apocalyptic...
