WMH Video Screenings
Posted by Ginny Mata on May 24, 2008
DUMAGUETE
Silliman University
June 23, 2008, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
BAGO CITY
Balay Ni Tan Juan Araneta, Bago City
July 1, 2008
10th Anniversary of Creating Presence: 100 Years of Absence (Filipino Women in History)
PAMANA NI LOLA (Grandmother’s Legacy): Video documentary. 20 minutes. 1998. A video on women suffrage from the point of view of the filmmakers. With the 1998 national electoral contest, this documentary on the history of women’s participation in elections is of timely. The filmmakers go on a “search” for surviving women suffragists from the period of the Commonwealth, the women behind the 1937 plebiscite and the 1940 national elections. This documentary allows the filmmakers to journey with their subjects, each emerging with their own voices on the election and the women’s right to vote. (Rica Arevalo, Coreen Jimenez, Sheila Nicolas-Red, Joyce Torreno)
SHE: Video Experimental Narrative. 20 minutes. 1998. Gabriela Silang goes on a yosi (smoking) break after being hanged. A modern-day Doña Victorina gets high on drugs and is brought to a surreal trial. Sisa exorcises her inner demons in a ritualistic dance. Maria Clara gets deconstructed in a doll play. Four women archetypes in four interconnected stories all happening inside a comfort room. This short narrative is an attempt to explore the complexities of Filipino women archetypes that have left their mark on the Filipino consciousness for the past hundred years. (Christine Carlos, Ned Trespeces, Dang Bagas, Emman dela Cruz)
LIHAM PARA SA MGA KABAIHAN (Letters to Women): Video Documentary. 20 minutes. 1998. This documentary tells the stories of women who helped shape the minds of the young by teaching and writing history. It attempts to examine how colonial education or its absence has shaped the consciousness of the Filipino woman in relation to her concept of a woman and a Filipino. The documentary also narrates the stories of women who brought about great changes in education as well as of ordinary women who have empowered themselves through education. (Nancy Pe Rodrigo and Amy Rogel-Rara)
UMBILICAL CORD. Experimental Documentary Video. 27 minutes. 1998. A kaleidoscope of the filmmaker’s impressions of the 1998 events in the Philippines from the Centennial commemoration (liberation from Spain) to the presidential elections set within a larger exploration of the Filipino people’s relationship to one hundred years of Philippine struggle. In a series of montages, the filmmaker asks people from the markets to malls questions about what a hero means, who their heroes/heroines are, what they think of the centennial celebration, and what they think the role of women is today. (Angel Velasco Shaw)
Woman As (Mythical) Hero (videos and films made by the WMH resident artists)
THE MOMENTARY ENEMY. Experimental Documentary Video. 24 minutes. 2008. The Momentary Enemy is about the imminent fall of the American Empire. It takes a critical comparative look into the way mass media has represented the Philippine-American War, Vietnam and Iraq Wars since the turn of the century to present day. (Angel Velasco Shaw)
I DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR LEGEND. Film. 12 minutes. 2003. Using traditional Indonesian shadow play, this short film work confronts the representationof Sita in the Ramayana, specifically the aspect of the narrative that deals with her “purity”. (Arahamaiani)
