Flower Codec Lotus (2018) dir. Gio Lingao

The film explores movements of memories constantly reiterating its process of renewal. It is instigated through tensions in time between the filmmakers typhoondamaged early childhood photographs (approximately from 19932000) and his personal travel account of his short stay in Vienna, Austria (November 2126, 2017) which was shot with an old VHS camcorder. Poetically meditating on identity and ephemerality, the deconstructed images of documented personal history forces notions of fiction and reality to an ending. Thus, the emitted silence impedes shades of its culture to surface; depicting a selfportrait of a modern Filipino broken by the living traumas of his troubled nation.