The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience

The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience 2021

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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.

2021

You'll Return in May

You'll Return in May 2024

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

2024

Kapok Tamod Engkanto

Kapok Tamod Engkanto 2020

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

2020

Ere

Ere 2017

8.00

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

2017

Baggage

Baggage 2023

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

2023

Walang Takot

Walang Takot 2017

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ACAB (All Cops Are Baduy-as-fuck)

2017

Omads

Omads 2018

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

2018

Juice Ex Makina

Juice Ex Makina 2019

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

2019

Homesick

Homesick 2018

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A boy reminisces his life in Los Baños.

2018

Sunday

Sunday 2018

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

2018

Boy Dyaryo

Boy Dyaryo 2017

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

2017

Deposit

Deposit 2020

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

2020

Day 500

Day 500 2016

5.00

Two roommates suffering from cabin fever descend into madness.

2016

Never Ending

Never Ending 2022

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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?

2022

Kuwit

Kuwit 2018

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A tribute to the departed.

2018

Ikot

Ikot 1970

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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.

1970