Nick Deocampo on Collective Filmmaking in the Philippines
Nick Deocampo on Collective Filmmaking in the Philippines
Hear from filmmaker and scholar Nick Deocampo of his pioneering vision on collective filmmaking in the Philippines. This talk reveals the impact of Deocampo’s four-decade-long career and inaugurates ‘Nick Deocampo: A Counter Cinema’, a screening programme which features his most iconic documentaries.
Deocampo’s investigational cinema offers an alternative reading of the country’s historical events during the 1980s and 90s, drawing attention to the struggle of queer and other marginalised communities. He has championed collective filmmaking and nurtured a network of creatives to build a vibrant independent film culture. Deocampo will share his lived historical experience and discuss how it continues to impact contemporary cultural production and research.
Click on ‘Register’ to sign up for this conversation with Nick Deocampo (via video call), M+ Lead Curator, Moving Image Silke Schmickl, and M+ Assistant Curator, Visual Art Ariadne Long, at the Learning Hub. M+ YouTube channel and Facebook account will also livestream this event.
About the Artist
Nick Deocampo (b.1959) is a historian, filmmaker, and pioneering advocate of queer cinema in the Philippines. He studied under filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, among other radical artists in Paris. Since the early 1980s, he has been actively engaged in enriching the cinematic landscape with perspectives that are at once challenging, lucid, and loving. As a prolific writer on the political and cultural history of the Philippines, he creates new reference points in alternative Filipino culture with works that portray members of his community, including personal friends, in a generous light.
Portrait of Nick Deocampo. Courtesy of the filmmaker
Image at top: Nick Deocampo. Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song , 1987. Photo: Courtesy of the artist