John Torres + Shireen Seno – Overcast that have a chance for coconuts – at PortikusExhibition:

Excerpt of ‘Children Becomes deceased, a child Performs, a woman Arrives: a woman Dies, good Bird Comes Les anmeldelse, a beneficial Bird Flies Of: A release Diary for a job-In-Progress’ of the Shireen SenoPublished within the Low-FICTION: A diary out of Discover Town Documentary Festival Situation 02-Community

Children dies, a kid plays, a lady is born, a lady becomes deceased, good bird will come, good bird flies away from (Arcade 4walls release)2020, 18 minute, colour, HDAsia Retail center Mass media Wall structure, China Society Center, Gwangju, South Korea

Lead having assistance out of ACC Theatre FundSpecial due to Adrian Constantino, Birding Philippines, Jelaine Gan, Carmela P

For the past 2 years, I have already been doing a series of knowledge of migration off birds inside and out of your Philippines, a beneficial kindred endeavor to a feature-size film I am composing called “The fresh Insane Duck”, passionate of the memories away from my father’s migration towards the All of us in early 2000s. Your panels aims to deal with migration in lot of forms and you may minutes. Birds, and you can ducks specifically, are like character models to possess people-they find ways to endure from the some form round the varied surface. I hope to take along with her a variety of types, migrating across some other years from moving visualize mass media.

The project started in 2018 possesses adopted different forms, of multi-channel video clips installment so you’re able to fresh backyard screenings and you can theatrical screenings. The project continues to be constant when i getting discover an urgent need expand the length and scope of your own work. The work so far has been in parallel with the delivery out-of my personal child, thus i try simply for footage I happened to be able to take in 2 locations a few hours because of the car out-of Manila. We still have my limitations because a mother while in the a nation-wide quarantine. So this time, I want to work at other bird followers to add receive footage of wild birds acquired from all over the newest Philippines. In my own look, I produced family with several bird professionals and birdwatchers, and that i noticed that both enjoys a wealth of video footage from their own birdwatching.

The newest works (Arcade 4Walls edition) is made specifically for the brand new Arcade 4Walls news display in Gwangju. Simultaneously when anyone was compelled to matter the way away from lives, wild birds could possibly offer far to know away from. They really are customers around the globe, belonging to numerous locations at the same time.

Medial Wall structure Show is actually a trip expo offering public artwork tactics produced by half a dozen musicians and artists and inspired by the various layouts plus Gwangju, this new 4th Commercial Wave, and you will human beings and you may nature on day and age out-of climate changes.

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Portikus was pleased to provide Overcast which have an opportunity for Coconuts, a collective installment of the Filipino flick and you can media artisans Shireen Seno (*1983) and you may John Torres (*1975).

Regarding the Program: Mass media Wall surface Program Arcade 4WALLS The brand new Media Wall structure are good 75m?16m screen apparent about China Mall plus the Forest from White

As well as their very own functions, Seno and you may Torres is actually founders of your Los Muchos collective in Manila, a research and you can program on manufacturing and you will support out of comparison into screen ranging from movie and ways. Seno and you may Torres are also at the heart of some other curatorial step, referred to as Kalampag Record Agencies, that’s seriously interested in help and you can dissemination from choice and you may fresh techniques within the Philippine flick development. One another programs is described as change and you will a transparency to other procedures, artists, and a freedom regarding the prominent motion picture industry.