Land and human rights are spotlighted in ST (Southern Tagalog) to SF (San Francisco), a free screening of documentaries, short-form works, and music videos, part of MCADxMoving Image, a program of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB).
The event looks at culture, society and politics through the media of the moving image-from hybrid documentaries and video essays to narrative experiments, filmed performances, and archival audiovisions.
Meticulously selected by Con Cabrera, a visual artist and independent curator, the lineup gathers works from multimedia collective and organization Southern Tagalog Exposure from Laguna, Philippines, and housing advocates People Power Media from California, USA.
The roster includes documentations of narratives on displacement, oppression, and state violence which are resisted by various manifestations of activism.
The lineup is headlined by 43, a short docu on health workers who were arrested and accused of being members of the New People’s Army during their medical training in Morong, Rizal; and WWIII, an animated music video of a song by Dong Abay, renowned Filipino singer-songwriter, which communicates the collective consciousness of those who question the unjust war perpetrated by those in power.
Likewise included in the series is Red Saga. Produced by Mowelfund Film Institute (MFI), it is a vivid landscape of metaphors on contemporary Philippine politics and a poetic take on the peasant struggle and the protracted people’s war in the Philippine countryside. Oyayi sa Kanlungan ng Digma depicts how militarization drove the Mangyans, Dumagats, and peasants from their homes.
Sa Amin: Our Place narrates the untold story of Filipino activists, artists, and intergenerational families in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood in their fight against displacement caused by urban renewal, real estate speculation, and tech booms. Rights is a one-hour pioneering compilation of independently produced human rights-themed short films and public service announcements (PSAs) which exposes the incessant human rights hostilities in the Philippines and serves as an open and continuing call for filmmakers to participate in the growing movement to defend and uphold human rights.
ST (Southern Tagalog) to SF (San Francisco) is free and open to the public. It will run from June 17 to June 19, 2026, from 12 noon to 2 pm.
A talkback with the former members of ST Exposure will be held on June 17. It will be moderated by Mary Ann Pernia, MCAD Learning and Special Projects head.
It will be held at the M302 Case Room of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) Taft Campus in Malate, Manila.