Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Imperio, Jamie Alyssa R. |
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| Resource Title | Pus@ngg#la! |
| Date Issued | 6 January 2026 |
| Abstract | Pus@ngg#la! is a visually loaded docufiction following its titular character: a young girl with the face of a stray cat, who ventures into the city with her distant brother to build a place for themselves long after their parents’ separation. Yet faced with the barricades of endless construction and tensions within the family, she is forced to confront the memory of the places she once called home. The film uses a stray cat as subject for its coding as rebellious in character, its general treatment by the unwelcoming public as a ‘pest,’ and for its ability to make a home for itself in most public and private spaces across the country despite its transient nature of displacement. Through an eclectic, mixed-media visual treatment, the film takes from Laura Marks’ concept of haptic visuality (i.e., the way in which memory can be evoked visually and therefore mediated through the sensorial fabric and feel of film) to emerge how connections to the home and the self are limited within the confining state of bureaucapitalism—and how lived spaces shaped to hold intimate memories are repeatedly broken down by systems of ongoing gentrification. |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Film |
| Language | English; Filipino |
| Keyword | Film; Film Production Thesis; Narrative film; Mixed Media; Experimental; Postcolonial Cinema |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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Access Permission : Open Access