Ának Araw

In cooperation with the Academy of the Arts of the World

ÁNAK ARAW is a surreal memory of cultural and linguistic colonization of the Philippines when they were reoccupied by the US after the Second World War. Shot and edited in monochrome, it tells the dreamlike story of an albino who is convinced to be the son of a US-soldier. The film follows him while he tries to learn English by reading a Tagalog-English dictionary – a process full of all-too-literal juxtapositions and strange oxymorons. Mixing archival material with artificially aged footage shot today, ÁNAK ARAW recasts fragments of history with splinters from the future. The film critic Lukas Foerster will give an introduction before the film screening.