We art to live full lives and push back when we must.
Curators for Pelikula this FPAC2020 is TRES MARIX (Ara Chawdhury, Tala Mateo & Irene Soriano Saxon).
Tres Marix are three Community Art Chicks activating through curation, film, music, literary and visual art. Tres Marix is an experiment, a coming together of three artists that do work in their communities to champion voice -self with communit(ies)-, action (partnered with justice) and art (energized with social change). Introduced to each other pre-COVID and reintroduced across the interwebs during the pandemic, this is how we three stay inspired, active and ready to be of service. Our respective art practice and intentions always go hand in hand with critical dialogue opposing disenfranchisement, erasure, suppression, violence and all those -isms…the list is long.
We art to live full lives and push back when we must. [IG:@tresmarix]
"2020 has drained and reordered society as we know it.
It’s been a year of turbulence for the US, the Philippines and the rest of the world.
How do we make sense of it all? Many turn to art to cope, to learn and resist.
Artists are able to give voice to what many of us are feeling during these challenging times because Art is the language of the spirit."
- TRES MARIX CURATORS STATEMENT
Curators for Pelikula this FPAC2020 is TRES MARIX (Ara Chawdhury, Tala Mateo & Irene Soriano Saxon).
Tres Marix are three Community Art Chicks activating through curation, film, music, literary and visual art. Tres Marix is an experiment, a coming together of three artists that do work in their communities to champion voice -self with communit(ies)-, action (partnered with justice) and art (energized with social change). Introduced to each other pre-COVID and reintroduced across the interwebs during the pandemic, this is how we three stay inspired, active and ready to be of service. Our respective art practice and intentions always go hand in hand with critical dialogue opposing disenfranchisement, erasure, suppression, violence and all those -isms…the list is long.
We art to live full lives and push back when we must. [IG:@tresmarix]
"2020 has drained and reordered society as we know it.
It’s been a year of turbulence for the US, the Philippines and the rest of the world.
How do we make sense of it all? Many turn to art to cope, to learn and resist.
Artists are able to give voice to what many of us are feeling during these challenging times because Art is the language of the spirit."
- TRES MARIX CURATORS STATEMENT
All films will be available from October 23 to November 1, 2020 except for Tokwifi which will only be available till October 25, 2020
SPECIAL SHOWCASE
As a special tribute to LA and its Filipinx music scene, we are proud to feature LEGEND, a short documentary about LA’s hip hop lightning rod, DJ Icy Ice [Stacks Records and the World Famous Beat Junkies], who helped build and grow LA’s vibrant DJ scene in the 1980’s and 90’s.
As a special tribute to LA and its Filipinx music scene, we are proud to feature LEGEND, a short documentary about LA’s hip hop lightning rod, DJ Icy Ice [Stacks Records and the World Famous Beat Junkies], who helped build and grow LA’s vibrant DJ scene in the 1980’s and 90’s.
FILM TITLE: Legend
DIRECTOR: Mark R. Villegas
TRT: 5:07 YEAR: 2008
GENRE: Documentary Short, Music
Legend explores the early DJ career of DJ Icy Ice. We glimpse the hip hop scene among young Filipino Americans and the cultural foundation set for the success of Filipino Americans in hip hop today. Don't get it twisted, Filipinos in hip hop aren't new. Through the story of Icy Ice, this documentary sets the record straight by illustrating the veteran status of Fil Ams in hip hop.
Program Title: ILAW NG TAHANAN (Light of the Home)
Program Description:
There is an old Filipino adage that the mother is the “light of the home.” As the “focus of attention” or a footnote in an objectionable infodoc or mentioned in passing during a conversation while working in the rice fields, the “mother” character in each of these films inform, provoke, ground, inspire, comfort and complicate already entangled family narratives. These short films invite you to delve into issues around abandonment, forgiveness, love, humor, self-acceptance, redemption and more…all reminders of the strong emotional force mothers and mother figures occupy in our lives.
DIRECTOR: Mark R. Villegas
TRT: 5:07 YEAR: 2008
GENRE: Documentary Short, Music
Legend explores the early DJ career of DJ Icy Ice. We glimpse the hip hop scene among young Filipino Americans and the cultural foundation set for the success of Filipino Americans in hip hop today. Don't get it twisted, Filipinos in hip hop aren't new. Through the story of Icy Ice, this documentary sets the record straight by illustrating the veteran status of Fil Ams in hip hop.
Program Title: ILAW NG TAHANAN (Light of the Home)
Program Description:
There is an old Filipino adage that the mother is the “light of the home.” As the “focus of attention” or a footnote in an objectionable infodoc or mentioned in passing during a conversation while working in the rice fields, the “mother” character in each of these films inform, provoke, ground, inspire, comfort and complicate already entangled family narratives. These short films invite you to delve into issues around abandonment, forgiveness, love, humor, self-acceptance, redemption and more…all reminders of the strong emotional force mothers and mother figures occupy in our lives.
FPAC SHORTS PROGRAM
FILM TITLE: Tokwifi (Star) DIRECTOR: Carla Pulido Ocampo TRT: 20:00 YEAR: 2019 GENRE: Narrative Short, Fantasy A 1950s showbiz star, trapped inside a television set, crashes down to earth. A frightened but probing indigenous farmer saves her. Deep into the night, the two try their best to engage each other. But glitches, language differences, and the offensive political incorrectness of 1950s TV all get in the way. 
FILM TITLE: Phony
DIRECTOR: Jess dela Merced TRT: 8.28 YEAR: 2018 GENRE: Narrative Short, Comedy SUNNY, a young Asian American woman with anger management issues, returns home to the San Gabriel Valley seeking respite from her recent career failures - but a simple grocery shopping trip with her mother may prove more than she can handle. |
FILM TITLE: Kahilom (Silence)
DIRECTOR: Kurt D. Fick TRT: 19:21 YEAR: 2016 GENRE: Narrative Short, Drama Kahilom is an exploration of loss and grief as experienced by a Deaf person. 
FILM TITLE: My Revolutionary Mother
DIRECTOR: Jethro Patalinghug TRT: 30.00 YEAR: 2013 GENRE: Documentary Short, Drama A filmmaker confronts his mother, a former political activist in the Philippines, about his feelings of abandonment. |
FILM TITLE: What I Would Have Told My Daughter If I Knew What To Say Back Then
DIRECTOR: Cha Roque TRT: 12:31 YEAR: 2017 GENRE: Documentary Short, Experimental What I Would Have Told My Daughter If I Knew What To Say Back Then features the filmmaker talking over 13 years of home videos in an imagined conversation with her daughter’s younger years. The filmmaker was outed to her three-year-old daughter without her consent. This experimental documentary was made to reclaim the coming out that was stolen from her. |
