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And the people behind this simply explained what really happened through a statement posted on social media.
ANCX | Apr 29, 2020
It came with a warning. “In the coming weeks,” said an art card posted to John Lloyd Cruz’s Instagram at @dumpsitegallery on April 11, “we’ll do a fictional job on Instagram. (It’s a love story and it’s about these times.) Any resemblance to people, dead or alive, is intentional. ”
And the day came: Last Sunday night, Bea was doing an IG concert, pretending, or maybe really trying, to figure out how that damn thing worked. She starts innocently with the intention of sharing one recipe or another, and then proceeds to yell at some of the people who tuned in.
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After a while, who would join her on the live stream, but her perennial screenmate John Lloyd Cruz, who, as it happens, also appears to be her friend in real life. Throughout the entire conversation, they exchange lines from their films, talk about the world we live in and the moments we find ourselves in. She laughs. He makes statements that make us tremble. Talk about her fears of raising a child in such a violent world. She responds with her belief that privilege is what makes us capable of doing good.
After a while, they hint at the crux of the whole exercise: who is the real John Lloyd and who is the real Bea? Bea is also Basha? Is John Lloyd Popoy too? Does everyone have the same feelings? The same fears? Does your audience care that you want nothing more than to see them on screen together?
Well, as John Lloyd warned on his IG a couple of weeks ago, it was all a performance. We were watching a production by John Lloyd and Bea. It was an exercise derived from her reading of the script last February from Antoinette Jadaone’s script for That Thing Called Tadhana. At that Art Fair event, they read a script originally written for them, as they naturally played through their personal romantic tribulations. Mix of facts and fiction, just as it did last Sunday, but instead of the grounds of the Torre Ayala, in the most accessible place that is the Internet. It was cinema, yes, presented in a totally new way.
Anyway, here is the statement published by Dan Villegas on his social media account, and which also appears on @dumpsitegallery on Instagram.
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The Unconfined Cinema was founded with the idea of exploring what else cinema could be, freeing our stories to tell them outside the traditional spaces and conceptual limits established by the last century of the medium. In this unprecedented moment of quarantine, at a time when film production is impossible, we found it especially pressing to find ways to tell our stories.
“Love Team” is a love story, whether romantic or in other ways, fully told on Instagram. It is a story of our times.
Love stories have always had their place in Filipino cinema, and we wanted to bring the feelings that those films inspire to a platform that has become more relevant and used in this moment of quarantine: social media, specifically Instagram. Using social media creates all kinds of new possibilities for storytelling. This was a story told for two weeks, adapting and evolving to real life events, integrating our genuine feelings about the state we are in.
This is a platform where we all share small fragments of ourselves. Through our images, this curated list of memories, we reveal what we want the rest of the world to see. Using Instagram’s various features, we try to tell a story of two people reconnecting at a difficult time; separated by distance, but united in their memories.
We are in a culture where the generally different line between reality and fantasy is blurred. We begin this story by stating that “any resemblance to people, dead or alive, is intentional.” And that is still true. It was the only way this was possible.
The Unconfined Cinema invites filmmakers and artists to join us to explore the possibilities of our cinema. Not only on Instagram, but in every conceivable setting.
#unconfinedcinema
