projeXions
Smashing the boundaries of standard narrative form, the projeXions section of Bakunawa Fest 12 serves as the festival’s definitive laboratory for experimental cinema, expanded media, and radical video art. These sensory, genre-bending works deliberately abandon traditional linear structures to explore the avant-garde, transforming the screen into an immersive canvas where abstract imagery and sonic rituals collide to challenge how we perceive reality, time, and the fantastic. Presented at the Black Box as a three-floor-to-ceiling projection.
Aries by Paul Rodgers (2025) USA 3.27min
Experimental I International Premiere
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Family photos are reanimated to create a meditation on birth, death, and the cycle of life.
Blue is Lost by Robert Joshua San Luis
(2025) Philippines 30min
Experimental I Bacolod Premiere
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Trapped in a crowded, overwhelming metropolis, the physical embodiment of "Grief" navigates the city to find its missing owner. The film abstracts the grieving process, blurring the lines between internal emotional states and external physical spaces.
Experimenta by Jesed Francis Moreno (2025)
Philippines 30min
Experimental I Bacolod & Iloilo Premiere
Rooted heavily in his background as a still photographer, Experimenta uses a series of photographic long takes. Rather than utilizing digital recording, physically engaging with the medium by shooting on celluloid and processing the film himself using DIY chemistry.
Perasakan Bergerak (Moving Feelings)
by Render Aryo (2025)
Indonesia 6min
Experimental Poetry I Philippine Premiere
Experimental poetry film shot using a super 8mm camera from 1975's. Through poetic images, the filmmaker shows a man and a woman searching and questioning the meaning of youth.
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Sott’ Acqua by Daffa Mangussara (2025) USA 2.36min
Video Art I Southeast Asian Premiere
IOceanids were considered the protectors of the waters in Greek mythology. In this same spirit, may the underwater nymphs in Sott’ Acqua guard against rising tides, flooding and the disappearing coastlines of our era.