Adjani Arumpac
Artist
Adjani Arumpac is a documentarist and an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute where she got a bachelor's degree in Film and Audio-Visual Communication and currently serves as Faculty Coordinator for Academic Programs and Research. Her directorial works include: Walai (2006); a documentary about Muslim women in Mindanao, Philippines; Nanay Mameng (2012) a biopic of beloved octogenarian urban poor mass leader in the Philippines, Carmen Deunida; and War is A Tender Thing (2013), an essay film on the war in Southern Philippines told through her family’s memories of struggle. Her works have been shown in various local and international festivals, as well as reiterated in visual art exhibitions. She is convenor of DoQ, a platform that aims to give agency to independent and regional documentarists, students, and alternative media workers by providing a regular screening space, with support from partner theaters. She was awarded a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Chevening scholarship in 2018 through which she finished her MA on Digital Media and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.
Marawi Did Not Take Place
2019 and 2024
single channel video
TRT 8 minutes and 46 seconds
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This video is a series of screen-savers consisting of patterns juxtaposed with personal accounts of families displaced during the Marawi siege in 2017. In collecting accounts from this conflict-stricken Islamic city in Mindanao, south of the Philippine islands, Arumpac locates freedom in stories of the common people, in personal narratives and memory where one also finds locations of resistance.