Martika Ramirez Escobar
2021Living Things
Martika Ramirez Escobar
Kristine Kintana, Charles Aaron Salazar
Kints and Charles have been together for almost a decade. One day, Kints wakes up and discovers that her lover has changed, literally. Although troubled at first, she eventually understands that what happened is a natural phenomenon. Through this, she is reminded that people change all the time and love can change people.
Living Things
Songs Happen Like Refrains in a Revolution
Martika Ramirez Escobar
Alyana Cabral, Mikee Dela Cruz
A woman tries to write a song. She looks for the right words and melody in places and through people. Through a hand-drawn map from a woman thrice her age, she finds people who have found what she is looking for. They tell her about how they found them. She listens, then she sings. We hear not a song, but a cry for a sing-along.
Songs Happen Like Refrains in a Revolution
Pusong Bato
Martika Ramirez Escobar
Mailes Kanapi, Anna Deroca
“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.
Stone Heart