This year, no local filmmaker in the short medium has reckoned with the politics of space quite like JT Trinidad did, with films such as the river that never ends…
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the river that never ends 2022
dim and haunting from the very first frame, like the waters it seeks to portray, it begins with breif blinks of darkness. we meet baby with her surreal assortment of…
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the river that never ends 2022
JT Trinidad channeling Tsai Ming Liang and Dwein Baltazar (he made Pasig a magnetic force just like the Manila of Baltazar in Gusto Kita With All Hypothalamus) like a champ.…
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Like People, They Change Too 2022
This is about as pure an artist's statement delivered in just under 30 minutes as I can think of. Even as JT Trinidad moves through each part of their identity,…
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Like People, They Change Too 2022
probably my favorite JT Trinidad short, an exploration of 'memoriography', that is, creating a history of memory itself, and also of how physical spaces (or, "lands") act as a repository…
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