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The multiple positions she occupies makes way for a uniquely
spherical point of view; the actor assuming the experiences of the
character-at the center, the writer overseeing the plot at the horizon,
and the director within the circumnavigation.
Seeing from both sides of the lens, Chavez reveals and demonstrates
a woman’s cry for renewal within the rigid contours of society.
The artistic depiction of a truth-based predicament is balanced by
a pulsating occurrence of fantasy. Each frame functions as a door
through which the real and the unreal pass and intersect. The
watcher inevitably gets caught within the knots of truth-telling and
truth-seeking.
What does it really mean to be a human being in a certain part of
the world... And to be one interconnected network of human beings
in this shared space?
In an expanded view, Argel articulates consciousness as manifested
by the individual being; the coming home to the self. This may
later form a ripple because perhaps, consciousness is something
contagious. This is culminated by Denli Chavez’s feminist film
titled Pagbutwa Halin Sa Kaidalman (Rise from the Depths). The
term raise consciousness originates from a feminist movement
in the 1960’s (United States). It translates how, in certain cases,
consciousness cannot thrive individually, but together. Hence, the
term connotes it as something to be raised, like the image of the
bayanihan, individuals in solidarity, connected, moving and being
with one another.
Pagbutwa Halin sa Kaidalman
Film, 15 minutes, 28 seconds
Denli Chavez
2021
The manner of rippling out yet remaining gathered of the myriad
of interconnections is consistent, too, with how matter manifests
in the universe. A debris of small objects in space, for instance,
gathers and emerge as spherical formations. The forces that cause
the They occurrence is consistent and observable everywhere around
us, from the infinitesimal atom of which we are made up of to the
colossal heavenly bodies including the planet we live in. This unified
valuation of the particular, the universal and the constructs of the
sphere ignited Negro.
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