Programmed by Ralph Barrientos, the 64-minute screening reflects on family, connection, and impermanence.
Stay for a post-screening convo with Mikael Joaquin, Mama’s Boy Collective, and Ralph Barrientos, moderated by Eya Beldia.
Featuring:
🇵🇭 Makoko sa Baybay (Mikael Joaquin, 2023)
🇸🇬 I am a beautiful beached whale by the Straits (Salty Xi Jie Ng, 2014)
🇵🇭 Si Ligaya (Mama’s Boy Collective, 2024)
🇯🇵Tulip-chan (Watanabe Saki, 2024)
Title: MANA
Location: -+*, Garapata store and Co.Lab in Quezon City
Programmer: Ralph Barrientos
Time: 7-9PM
The program begins on Tuesday, December 2, in Makati City, the Philippines’ central business district, where pottery enthusiasts gather at the Pottery Sessions studio. This studio tour and conversation with potters, moderated by Eya Beldia, will be recorded and documented.
On Wednesday, December 3, the MiaoChen Huang shares her knowledge and skills through a demonstration at the UP CFA Ceramics Studio. The studio, located in the UP College of Fine Arts, is shared by the students of the sculpture program of the premier university. With the kind support of studio coordinator, ceramic artist Jezzel Wee, the studio team, and a homegrown ceramics collective from UP CFA.
On the last day of the program, December 4, a select group is invited to visit to a working pottery studio on the outskirts of the city. Located in the home of visual artist Marco Rosario, this is an intimate gathering by invitation only.
Title: tadaima, narito na, arrived
Location: Makati City, Quezon City, Rizal
Duration: 2 December - 4 December 2025
Supported by Japan Foundation Manila
Alice Sarmiento, founder of Spare Bedroom, writes “In 2024, Perez began working on a personal archive of her hometown. Through the deeply immersive craft of cyanotype printing, texture and haptics are surfaced as research methods – intimate ways of engaging with the fading and fragmented memories that spring from a lifetime of liminal spaces. Further narrated through video and scenography, Perez reanimates the past to correspond with an uncertain future, each print a dispatch from “a place on the brink.”
Poster by Allan Balisi
Title: I hope this finds you well
Location: Chapter House, Quezon City, Philippines
Duration: 28 November - 4 January 2025
Presented together with Spare Bedroom
Title: Unreel Screening 1
Location: Chapter House, Quezon City, Philippines
Programmer: Grace Simbulan
These films traverse universal themes such as grief, existence, capitalism, and the afterlife, each articulated through distinct cultural and aesthetic lenses. Together, they articulate a transnational sensibility that bridges local experiences with broader questions on contemporary life and our common humanity.
Title: Voluptuous Surrender
Location: Sine Pop, Cubao, Quezon City, PH
Programmed with Em Manlapaz, Bea Mariano, JC Rosette in collaboration with @we_film_ph with the support of RESBAK
The first iteration of Scents/ Sounds Copenhagen/ Manila featured a conversation and a collective sonic and scent exchange between both Denmark and Philippines. Two countries with seafaring histories, the project highlights notions of navigation and wayfinding in both Copenhagen and Manila.
By creating this auditory repository, the vision is to capture and make accessible cross sections of these two cultures — linked by the seas and the stars.
Title: Scents/Sounds Copenhagen/Manila
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 7 April 2025
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation