Saturday, March 29, 2008

revising endless revisions for version 3


i've been out in batangas for the past 5 days re-editing gimikera. haven't had decent sleep in comfortable sleeping clothes. been wearing the same pair of jeans

my new post prod team, jim (a.k.a. gbong), marie, and ian is a blast. we've been cleaning up sound, color correcting/grading, re-editng sequences, eating a lot of junk food (c/o of marie), playing music etc etc. when we'd get really stressed out. we find a way to wake up by making fun of each other. formulating phony gossips among ourselves about ourselves it doesn't work all the time. especially on extremely late nights/ extremely early mornings.
where we'd end up dozing off where we're sitting.

ali, jim's wife is always gracious and sweet at these hours. when i come around looking probably very unenergized. she never failed to offer, "coffee?" or "cheese bread?" with a sweet smile on her face. its very comforting. she's a beautiful mom. andrea their one year older daughter loves me. the first time she saw me it seemed like i am someone very familiar to her. jim and i have this theory that andrea and i have probably met in a past life. maybe as monkeys or cockroaches or something.

and to think that i even had apprehensions, coming out all the way in batangas to edit. thoughts like, "is it worth coming all the way out in batangas for?" etc etc were running through my head as i half doze off in the 3 hour bus ride getting here. its a good thing i've been learning alot about listening to my intuition these days. so far it's been a fun ride getting to where were trying to get at with this team

gimikera has been a long arduous journey of the mind, body and spirit for me. i have been learning so much about my craft, my self and people in the past 5 days that i've been here. i guess this is how i am basically going to be with anything that i will be doing for the rest of my life. sometimes everytime i go through an artisitic process, i feel that i give so much of myself away. it's exhausting and blood and wallet sucking. everytime though i come out feeling more whole than before. it's interesting how one thing can take so much and yet give so much back at the same time. i wouldn't trade this process for anything less than what it is.




Thursday, March 27, 2008

KASIBUAN @ GSIS MUSEUM




The KASIBULAN Exhibiton was opened by Brenda Fajardo March 7, Friday and was attended by KASIBULAN members, friends and families. It was a collection works done by members after 2004 by the women of KASIBULAN. Some works artists who participated had come all the way from Sagada and Davao.

My work was part of my BABAE . A panel of four photograms showing images of movement and for a static image of the body. It presented four movements and the absence of it.