DEAR NANAY

short film, 3 min 24 sec

Synopsis

A love letter to her grandmother, this experimental documentary explores the filmmaker's early memories in the Philippines and her search for refuge from pandemic anxiety and domestic claustrophobia.

Director’s Statement

Dear Nanay — a love letter I dedicate to my grandma, Nanay Choleng, who is now 83 and has been a domestic worker in the Philippines and Hong Kong for most of her life — sprang out of a photography series I had been working on at the start of the pandemic in 2020. It is an introspection of my domestic role as a mother and artist while navigating the required matrilineal labor and service as a brown woman and immigrant.

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