DIM Cinema
- Big Boy
- Philippines2013
- Shireen Seno
- 89 DCP
- NR
- DIM Cinema
Screening Dates
- November 8, 2017 7:00
Programmed by Allison Collins
The program contemplates what it means to be both in and ‘of’ a place while interrogating nationalisms and the lasting effects of Western imperialism. America’s checkered past of influence in Southeast Asia forms the backdrop as a cultural measuring post in Seno’s experimental feature film Big Boy.
followed by
Disintegration 93–96
USA 2017
Miko Revereza
5 min. DCP
As coda to the feature, a short work by Miko Revereza, an emerging voice in Filipino-American filmmaking, has been selected as a contemplative inscription of direct commentary, and an awareness of how national identity traverses literal borders.
Media
Note
Big Boy is presented by DIM Cinema as part of a double-bill evening made up of Philippines-made feature works. John Torres’s People Power Bombshell screens in the second half of the program.