Screenings

PRESS RELEASE Online Screenings | General Public19 and 26 August 20202 September 2020 Spend time with us and watch another session of SCREENINGS, the museum’s platform supporting its programs. We’re featuring three past public programs that explore curatorial studies; views on Biennales, and cultural and political institutions; and the processes involved in turning ideas into…

Screenings

PRESS RELEASE Online Screenings | General Public15, 22, 29 July 2020, 1-2pm MCAD brings its public programs online through Screenings, an online platform supporting MCAD’s programs. View 3 public programs on our YouTube channel. Public Lecture: Curating in an Institutional Context by Pauline Yao15 July 2020, 1pm*Online Screening | General PublicWatch the video here. Pauline…

PRESS RELEASE 24 July 2020, 3-5 pmOnline Event | General Public How has the Philippine moving image evolved. In light of the Philippine cinema’s 100th year, MCAD invites all to an online panel discussion with local artists, filmmakers and industry professionals to explore critical junctions in the development of moving image in the Philippines, and…

The public’s interest in the year’s first MCAD Platforms event, Craft of Contemporary Collage, resulted in a diverse group of participants who were re-introduced to the art form through  a lecture and a hands-on workshop facilitated by two established visual artists, Gary Ross Pastrana and Kaloy Olavides, both alumni of the University of the Philippines-…

To continue the museum’s engagement with our public during this period of quarantine, we are launching Screenings, an online platform supporting our programmes. Starting with our current exhibition, Constructions of Truths, which opened early this year in February, we will be sharing the videos included in the exhibition in their entirety for 24 hours starting Sunday, April 26, 8:00 AM (PST) until Monday, April 27, 8:00 AM (PST)*.

Focusing on some of the countries leading moving image projects, speakers Manny Montelibano, Lisa Chikiamco, Rica Estrada, Tenten Mina, Merv Espina and Shireen Seno will be joined by moderator, Ricky Orellana from the Southeast-Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) as they explore collecting, archiving and exhibiting video and film within the Philippines.

Gandahar May 10 & 11 12:00 PM and 3:00 pm Directed by Rene Laloux 82 minutes Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines Contre Gandahar. Sylvain’s investigation leads him to discover the link between past and present. Flatlands May 17 & 18 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM Directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr 95 minutes Based…

Editor, writer and filmmaker Erwin Romulo curates this months screenings, the films complement MCAD’s current exhibition ‘the center will not hold’. These films look into the interrelation of film and migration, and forms of subverting, engaging, rethinking, proposing and resisting a challenging present. Balikbayan #1 April 3, 5,& 7 Directed by Kidlat Tahimik Kidlat Tahimik…