We’re back with our free film screenings!

Our selection of films for the month of March guide us through several reflections on the concerns of and from contested— because they can only be perceived through imposition—-“peripheries” and their reverberations across an uneven, gendered, but transforming world. Diverse in subject matter and articulation, the films offer different positions from which narratives flow within, as Docot would say, the “messy contexts” of the spaces their characters dwell in making the Center an even more complex territory. To continue to reckon our location relative to these points is to work towards their dissolution into a more dignified existence. As Olu Oguibe averred 25 years ago: “To counter perpetually a center is to recognize it”.

Agpansula 

March 1 & 2; March 15 & 16 / Thursday 12nn & Friday 3pm

Agpansula narrates the experiences of two individuals whose plans to marry are restrained by circumstances of prejudice and the stirrings of tradition. The word refers to the ritual which augurs an undertaking or endeavor, in this case, a marriage.

May Dinadala

March 6; March 15 & 16  / Tuesday 12nn; Thursday 12nn & Friday 3pm

A stone miner is torn by a love for his still unborn child and the hatred towards his pregnant wife who carries it. And when the miner gives in to the seduction of a dark and enchanted lover, he must choose, just as every dark creature must only pick between painful fates.

Sans Soleil

March 26 & 27 / Monday 12nn & Tuesday 3pm

Often described as an essay film but regarded by Marker himself as a “home movie”, Sans Soleil brings together rumination and fiction through a collage of found footage and sequences that resemble documentary film in different locations such as Japan, Paris, and Guinea Bissau.

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For non-CSB guests, entrance is through the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde SDA lobby. There are elevators you can take up to the 12th floor.

For more information, email mcad@benilde.edu.ph or call 2305100 loc. 3897.