Lost Frames is a screening event that features video and film from artists whose works occupy the margins or interstices across the vast field of moving images. From its origins inside a small screening room in Cubao, Lost Frames has gathered more than 50 filmmakers, animators, designers, and visual artists through regular screenings held since 2015. Each screening event includes talks by artists and a discussion with the viewers and other participants. This format of presenting and discussing works is deemed necessary and highlights dialogue as a vital part of the viewing experience, which is geared towards developing a community where anyone can participate and put forward artistic, practical, or social concerns. From its initial attempts to future regular screenings, Lost Frames aims to adhere to this simple format, which is discovery through viewing, and understanding through discussions.

As part of The Unconfined Cinema for Art Fair Philippines, Lost Frames adopts the idea of ‘current video practices & video art’ in presenting works that seek to re-create the form, which coincides with the program’s aim to explore the evolution of Philippine Cinema and current film practices as part of the broader spectrum of art and the moving image.

Triptych films, which are films meant to be projected on three screens, are a rarity anywhere around the world. But the Philippines has produced a number of them. This collection, as assembled by curator Teddy Co, compiles decades of work from artists and filmmakers such as Manny Montelibano, Jaime Pacena, Lyle Sacris, Peque Gallaga, Martha Atienza, and more. These films are varied in form: some are installation works of moving image, meant for display at a gallery. Some take on the burden of narrative, using the extra frames to interrogate the stories held within. Some works play out as a conversation between screens. These works will be projected on three perpendicular walls of the cinema space, each screen given its own sound source.

In expanding the scope of cinema beyond its traditional singular frame, these triptych films are an exploration of the boundaries of the art form. As part of The Unconfined Cinema for Art Fair Philippines, this unprecedented collection of films highlights a hidden, uncoordinated movement within the art and filmmaking spheres that interrogates the limits of a means of display.

Raymond Red is a pioneer of modern Filipino independent and alternative cinema. Emerging from the tumult of the 1970s and from a generation coming of age during Martial Law in the Philippines, Red began making numerous experimental and narrative super-8mm and 16mm short films in the 1980s. In 1992, he produced and directed his first feature film, Bayani. An alternative take on Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan, it was significant also for being commercially released in movie theaters, making it a precursor to the indie movement that would make deeper inroads into the mainstream a decade later. Red has directed five full length feature films, including another historical epic, Sakay (1993), and his latest, Mga Rebeldeng Kaso (2015). In 2000, his short film Anino was awarded the Palm D’Or, making it the first Filipino film to win at the Cannes Film Festival.

One of the most original filmmakers in Philippine cinema, his best known work can be described as patriotic parables shot with a surrealist’s eye and an iconoclast’s mischief. A selection of his short films will be screened as a special showcase for The Unconfined Cinema at Art Fair Philippines.

Roxlee is a Filipino animator, writer, cartoonist, painter, musician, and filmmaker. The co-creator of iconic Filipino comic character Cesar Asar, he is a pioneer of independent film animation in the Philippines. His early works shot on super-8 film are now considered classics of the underground film movement of the 1980s. These include hand-drawn animated shorts like “The Great Smoke” (1984) and the live action cartoons such as “Lizard, or How to Perform in Front of a Reptile” and “Juan Gapang” (both 1987). He is also the author of “The 12 Commandments For Independent Filmmakers”. Since 2018, he has also been conducting animation workshops for children.

As part of The Unconfined Cinema at Art Fair Philippines, a selection of Roxlee’s films will be screened. Some of the works from his animation workshop for children will also have their premieres at the booth.

Roxlee is a Filipino animator, writer, cartoonist, painter, musician, and filmmaker. The co-creator of iconic Filipino comic character Cesar Asar, he is a pioneer of independent film animation in the Philippines. His early works shot on super-8 film are now considered classics of the underground film movement of the 1980s. These include hand-drawn animated shorts like “The Great Smoke” (1984) and the live action cartoons such as “Lizard, or How to Perform in Front of a Reptile” and “Juan Gapang” (both 1987). He is also the author of “The 12 Commandments For Independent Filmmakers”. Since 2018, he has also been conducting animation workshops for children.

As part of The Unconfined Cinema at Art Fair Philippines, a selection of Roxlee’s films will be screened. Some of the works from his animation workshop for children will also have their premieres at the booth.