Absence Memory, 2020

2 channels video | 4'38''
On March 2020 when the president of Philippines announced a state of emergency, that anyone was out on the streets without permission could be shot.Two young people were stuck in an apartment in Manila. An invisible power, unknown fear and despair atmosphere were around them. One talked about the death scene of his father that he was absent, and according to the witnesses description to reenact the moment when his father died. At that moment, the camera serves as a recorder, and the body serves as an absent memory container, seeming to tell how memories are constructed.