Literary

When the great flood comes
21
Jun
By Bettina Katryn Reyes
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When the great flood comes

MY FATHER could have been an architect — an engineer, even, so he could bump shoulders with bigger beasts. I can already taste our life in the version where he obtained his license. He would drive home in foreign cars that aren’t even available in the country yet. Once his…
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Backrooms: To exist or to exit?
21
Jun
By Anthea Anika de Sales
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Backrooms: To exist or to exit?

THE HORROR of finding oneself in a strange and surreal place cannot compare to the hauntings of the past. Kane Parson’s Backrooms forces its characters and viewers into a rabbit hole of questions, but only one echoes loudly in the yellow-wallpapered halls of this other dimension: Can you ever escape…
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The Recessional
07
Jun
By Bettina Katryn Reyes
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The Recessional

It takes approximately twenty steps to cross the Arch from Lovers Lane. At the fifth, the screaming begins: a collective, deafening exhale of years of held breath. By the tenth step, the dizziness kicks in. The momentum of my peers carries me forward. Everything is going by too fast—the high…
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Sisa: When women march forward
18
Mar
By The Flame Literary
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Sisa: When women march forward

WHEN THE product of men’s violence and cowardice affects women and children, how does one survive the remnants of a war? Jun Robles Lana’s historical thriller Sisa, set in the waning of American colonization in the Philippines, serves to illustrate the retribution of those women. The film recently won Best Screenplay Award Directors Week…
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The Loved One: Ten years down the drain
05
Mar
By The Flame Literary
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The Loved One: Ten years down the drain

“LOVE MAKES ordinary people into poets, philosophers… and monsters.” The Loved One is a film for those in love and in doubt about their relationship. It is a story of how two lovers lost one another in a decade’s worth of a relationship after failing to realize that differences did not start on…
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Gitling: Yearning in silence
03
Mar
By The Flame Literary
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Gitling: Yearning in silence

SILENCE IS a love language employed when the heart wants to say so much, but is not capable of articulating it fully. In Gitling, the love left unsaid lingers in the air; silence holds more weight, speaking louder than any poetic dialogue or confession of love. Directed by Jopy Arnaldo, the film was…
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