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Balagan Films | Shireen Seno (curator), Experimental Films
May 8, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Presented in conjunction with Crows and Sparrows, Balagan welcomes Manila-based filmmaker and curator Shireen Seno to present a program of Filipino experimental film and video from the past three decades. The Kalampag Tracking Agency is an ongoing curatorial initiative of Shireen Seno (Los Otros) and Merv Espina (Generation Loss). A discussion with Shireen will follow the program.
This program is funded in part by a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Further support is provided by the Harvard University Asia Center.
See here for full program: http://www.balaganfilms.com/kalampag-tracking-agency
CURATOR’S NOTES
Overcoming institutional and personal lapses to give attention to little-seen works—some quite recent, some surviving loss and decomposition—this programme collects loose parts in motion, a series of bangs, or kalampag in Tagalog, assembled by individual strengths and how they might resonate off each other and a contemporary audience. Featuring some of the most striking films and videos from the Philippines and its diaspora, this is an initiative that continues to navigate the uncharted topographies of Filipino alternative and experimental moving image practice.