Mikael Joaquin

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)

After being involved in a bullying incident, a young boy takes a journey to seek his father’s grave with the help of a peculiar horned fish.

A woman struggles to let go after the disappearance of her husband which prompts her to create the illusion of his death.

Collection of memories during the pandemic and the alienation in the city.

This documentary is a compilation of archival footage, faded photographs, and intimate conversations with the filmmaker’s twin grandmothers to revisit the memories of a once-beloved resort.

A teenager boy plans to escape from his small town to confront his growing existential crisis as love is being challenged.

Two brothers hope to find the sea creature who killed their mother.

Mga Tala sa Kagandahan (Notes on Beauty) follows a filmmaking and theatre workshop for genderqueer kids (in swardspeak, baby bakla) in a Sitio in the City Antipolo, Rizal - a known pilgrimage site east of Manila. Its assertion: the right to our own representation, in front of and behind the camera. The footage, majorly shot by the kids, are a mixture of moments of learning and play times, that hopes to show the kids' view of the world in their first takes.