The Unconfined Cinema #3: Revolutions, Refrains, Songs

Three films screened simultaneously in adjacent gallery rooms. Nick DeOcampo's 1987 documentary "Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song" — a drag performer against the Marcos dictatorship. John Torres's 2010 experimental feature "Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song" — actors speaking Hiligaynon while the director writes disconnected English subtitles. A newly commissioned work by Martika Escobar: "Songs Happen Like Refrains in a Revolution" — shot during lockdown, creative people contributing snippets woven into a song-writing narrative. Sound from each film leaked into adjacent rooms, simulating a cross-generational conversation between filmmakers working with constraints.