Two asexuals, six cameras, one question that breaks the internet.
Image production is fiction-weaving. Together with Sheena Absalud, we spent an entire day in Pride Month in my room documenting ourselves using different cameras: three mobile phones, one action camera, one CCTV camera, and one laptop, while asking each other questions about our asexuality. Recognizing the role of the moving image in constructing prejudice, self-identity, and desires, and therefore the expansion of neoliberalism, "The Function of Fiction" attempts to abandon temptations to define “asexuality” and its place in the context of “LGBTQIA+”, in pursuit of new socialities and possibilities. Music in the film was spawned with plants and machines.
Direction
CCTV as radical intimacy, not paranoia
Sound
Plant-machine collaboration—literally alive
Director
Mac Andre Arboleda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's title nods to cognitive scientist Lisa Zunshine's work on fiction as social simulation—here weaponized against neoliberal identity markets.
Created during 2021 Pride when physical gathering was impossible; the bedroom becomes both safe space and panopticon.
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