36 minutes that'll radicalize your grandma and make you cry.
A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as the women’s struggle is laid to bear in the individual stories and achievements of those featured in the film. The fragmented mosaic of voices and scenes allow for a plurality of views and opinions to account for the multifaceted and complex nature of Filipinas. From poetry to dance, politics to poetry – women chart their own lives in the auspicious event of change happening with the ascent of a woman to the country’s pinnacle of power.
Direction
Deocampo wields fragmentation like a weapon—no single story owns the truth.
Production
Mythic reenactments collide with gritty documentary footage; time becomes slippery.
Director
Nick Deocampo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the tail end of the Aquino administration, the film captures a fleeting moment when Philippine feminists dared to hope that female leadership meant systemic change—spoiler: it didn't.
Nick Deocampo, a pioneer of Philippine experimental cinema, originally trained as a puppeteer—explaining the film's almost puppet-like manipulation of mythic figures and archival ghosts.
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