Raya Martin : 2013
A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the bible and her father relishes in alcohol and history. She decides to put on a stage play based on an old Filipino film about a family who disappears in the mountains during the war. But soon after the performance, she vanishes from the car, prompting her parents to look for her in the woods. One by one, they all start to disappear. Allowing dream and reality to mingle effortlessly, the film juxtaposes horror with documentary-like scenes. Who eventually disappears or whether anybody really does so is not the point, the intention here being not to tell a story, but to open up emotional and cognitive registers. Experimental filmmaker Raya Martin's feature premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2013.
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