Myopia

Virginia Film Festival Selection
(Re)present Competition Film - 1st place
Madison Lane Visual Arts Prize Finalist

Total run time: 4:20
HD video, stereo, 16mm color
2020

This film employs the act of doing laundry, in its habitual, cyclical mundaneness, to reflect a deep longing for a cultural heritage under the strain of constant, quiet erasure. Invoking two voices, mother and  daughter, Tagalog and English, I choose to render this immigrant experience through the insecurities surrounding language, and its intimate relation to generational distances. As both acts offer clarity and exhaustion in tandem, this lived reality reveals a duality in my experiences of belonging, ones I can view as my own often only by squinting at them.