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Nailed, dir. Angel Velasco Shaw, 1992, SD video, colour, sound, 50 mins
This event forms part of the ongoing project Parallel Histories: Moving Image from the Philippines and the United Kingdom and includes a screening of Angel Velasco Shaw’s feature length Nailed (1992) followed by conversation with Parallel Histories curator Erwin Romulo and Steven Cairns, ICA Curator of Artists’ Film and Moving Image, who will discuss the project.
Angel Velasco Shaws' Nailed (1992) is and exploration of the Catholic Church and 400 years of colonialism in the Pacific region; woven in a montage of images, sounds, stories and performances. The film looks at the implications of worship, national, cultural, and personal identity following Lucy Reyes, a Filipino woman who for decades has reenacted the Passion by being nailed to a cross. It is also about the filmmaker's exploration of the Philippines and her own identity as a Filipino American, following the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980's.
The exhibition Parallel Histories: Moving Image from the Philippines and the United Kingdom is currently on show at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (26 October–31 December 2023), featuring works by experimental filmmakers based in the Philippines and the United Kingdom from 1990 onwards.
Programme:
Angel Velasco Shaw, Nailed, 1992, SD video, colour, sound, 50 mins
Erwin Romulo is a Manila-based writer, filmmaker, and curator. He started writing on film, music, and art for the broadsheet The Philippine Star in 1996 and was the first to review the first Filipino digital feature length film in 1999. In 2011, he became the founding editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine in the Philippines. He also composes music and sound-designs for film, including several collaborations with Filipino director Lav Diaz. Since 2011, he has curated shows of multimedia, sound, and moving image works in the Philippines.
Parallel Histories: Moving Image from the Philippines and the United Kingdom (exhibition), features the works of experimental filmmakers working in the Philippines and the United Kingdom from 1990 onwards. Curated by Erwin Romulo and presented in partnership with the British Council in the Philippines and the Metropolitain Museum of Manila, the collection of works in the exhibition portrays experiences and artistic visions influenced by cultural, social, and political conflicts of their respective eras and milieu. The program pairs Filipino and British moving image works that respond to these sweeping changes—and in most instances protest their course.
Programmed in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila and British Council Philippines.
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