Kneading Nothing

January. 22,2021

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Eksena Cinema Quarantine

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It’s December 2020, more than nine months of community quarantine in the Philippines. The idea of nothingness is actual and symbolic. With imposed restrictions in the physical world, how can we tell our personal and collective stories of living under the “longest COVID-19 lockdown in the world”? Confined at home, physical and non-physical boundaries are magnified as the filmmaker attempts to articulate existence through floating in time and space.

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Reviews

GazerRise

2021/01/22

Fantastic!

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filippaberry84

2021/01/23

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Hayden Kane

2021/01/24

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Kaelan Mccaffrey

2021/01/25

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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