John Torres
Sensing Film by our guest of honour, the Philippine Filmmaker and Director John Torres.
For a few days, we will see other possibilities of making films, either alone or with others. We can try and see how rhythm plays a part, registering emotions in things we show and hide, how stories unfold, what things we can find to make things more practical, not so much to clearly answer but to propose and ask, and why it’s okay not to be sure all the time. We think about process over output. Hopefully, this gives us an idea of other ways to pursue later on.
John is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer. He has made more than a dozen short films and five features. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. He teaches part-time at the Ateneo de Manila University and UP Film Institute and co-organizes artist talks and screenings in Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. A special focus of his works has been shown at the Viennale, Seoul, Cosquin, and Bangkok.
For a few days, we will see other possibilities of making films, either alone or with others. We can try and see how rhythm plays a part, registering emotions in things we show and hide, how stories unfold, what things we can find to make things more practical, not so much to clearly answer but to propose and ask, and why it’s okay not to be sure all the time. We think about process over output. Hopefully, this gives us an idea of other ways to pursue later on.
John is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer. He has made more than a dozen short films and five features. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. He teaches part-time at the Ateneo de Manila University and UP Film Institute and co-organizes artist talks and screenings in Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. A special focus of his works has been shown at the Viennale, Seoul, Cosquin, and Bangkok.