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even if cities would vanish, we will remain

director: JT Trinidad

original title: maglaho man ang lungsod, tayo'y mananatili

country: Philippines

year: 2022

running time: 5 min.

synopsis

Manila at night is an experimental landscape in which the contradictory elements characteristic of living in a big city collide. The physical meets the technological, the human meets the industrial. Fast sex, fragmented lives, anonymous portraits without faces and genitals are scattered in a poetic chaos of colorful neon, fireworks, and advertisements for an ideal world.

biography

JT Trinidad (* 2001) is a film student at the University of the Philippines Diliman as well as a journalist and photographer. His experimental documentaries portray human feelings amid an industrial urban landscape. His short film As If Nothing Happened enjoyed success at international film festivals. He is currently filming his feature debut Manila Baby.

more about film

director:	JT Trinidad
producer:	JT Trinidad

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