UP Film Circle

A distressed college student confronts his lover about the events that led to their separation.

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.

Abi wants to be something that others do not want her to be.

Ian struggles to fulfill a promise as he fights a battle against himself, within himself.

A boy facing expulsion from the university tries to uncover the myth of the Sperm Bridge to make ends meet.

Hulyo faces a few obstacles on the way to his 8AM exam.

After a year of going to class online, Sheila moves into a dormitory despite residing a few kilometers away from the university.

In a desperate attempt to solve her problems, a girl seeks help from a known miracle worker.

ACAB (All Cops Are Baduy-as-fuck)

Arthur, a young student, volunteers for the school newspaper. He describes his favorite part about being a newspaper boy.

A boy reminisces his life in Los Baños.

A student dormer tries to find something to eat on a Sunday.

Two roommates suffering from cabin fever descend into madness.

An unassuming Isko going to class is confronted with his pent-up frustrations and the external pressures that have been plaguing him during a string of strange encounters on the Never-Ending Bridge. Will he ever make it to the end?

A tribute to the departed.

Sid throws a party for strangers to celebrate the end of the world.

In the middle of a pandemic, four students try to get to their online class… Until one of them receives a very strange text message.