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| Personal Name | Demot, Kyle Clarence W. |
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| Resource Title | when you're gone tomorrow dad, i'll bring you sunflowers from home |
| Date Issued | January 2026 |
| Abstract | when you’re gone tomorrow dad, i’ll bring you sunflowers from home is an autoethnographic experimental documentary that revolves around the impending death of the filmmaker’s father and frames it as an allegory for migration, articulating loss as inherent to movement. Grounded in critical autoethnography as written by Jones (2018), and supported by Russell’s (1999) autoethnographic film theory as well as theories of diaspora and belonging (Hall, 1990; Ahmed, 1999), this thesis treats filmmaking as a reflexive, process-based inquiry in which the personal and political are inseparable. Drawing from personal journals, family archives, photographs, scanned objects, and embodied movement across Baguio, Manila, Besao, and Bontoc, the film also reflects on the filmmaker’s mobility and identity alongside the migration histories of their parents. These materials function as memory triggers through which identity is examined as relational, generational, and continually negotiated. Formally, the film adopts a fragmented and cyclical structure that mirrors the instability of migration and identity formation. Through its process, the film proposes acceptance as a means of negotiating uncertainty, suggesting that retrospection and vulnerability operate not as resolutions, but as methods for understanding identity amid change. |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Film |
| Language | English; Filipino; Ilocano |
| Keyword | Internal Migration; Film; Autoethnography; Mountain Province; Identity; Baguio |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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