Mac Andre Arboleda

Image production is fiction-weaving. Together with Sheena Absalud, we spent an entire day in Pride Month in my room documenting ourselves using different cameras: three mobile phones, one action camera, one CCTV camera, and one laptop, while asking each other questions about our asexuality. Recognizing the role of the moving image in constructing prejudice, self-identity, and desires, and therefore the expansion of neoliberalism, "The Function of Fiction" attempts to abandon temptations to define “asexuality” and its place in the context of “LGBTQIA+”, in pursuit of new socialities and possibilities. Music in the film was spawned with plants and machines.

Two stories about waiting in the slow university town of Los Baños.

A boy facing expulsion from the university tries to uncover the myth of the Sperm Bridge to make ends meet.

Abi wants to be something that others do not want her to be.

A student dormer tries to find something to eat on a Sunday.

ACAB (All Cops Are Baduy-as-fuck)

Arthur, a young student, volunteers for the school newspaper. He describes his favorite part about being a newspaper boy.

A recent college graduate visits his hometown to find some friendly otherworldly guidance to make sense of the pressures of his responsibilities.