Cristian Tablazon

Cristian Tablazon

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Translación 2013

The project owes its title to the Roman Catholic procession that marks the movement of icons and remains of a saint’s body. While this video is basically concerned with the body’s experience as a medium in moments of temporal translation, the term not only recalls its etymology but also accommodates the inherent parallel between the denotative act of translation and notions of transfer, passage, and deposition, vis-à-vis (in the context of the said ritual) the potentially numinous. By passage, the video also alludes to the connotations invoked by Francisco Benitez that he presumes to have been lost in the Spanish renderings of the phrase "pinagdaanang buhay" in the corrido titles of Ibong Adarna.
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Gulf 2021

A young couple's life in a coastal town is disrupted when the landlord's grandchild goes missing, presumed to have been taken by a malignant sea spirit.
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The Visible World 2016

"The Visible World is an ongoing extraction of 'softness' from different time intervals and milieus. [Using invocations with an automated voice of translations of lines assembled from Tablazon's great grandfather's komedya Principe Baldovino (ca. 1936), fragments from Roland Barthes, the correspondence between his half-sibling parents, and most extensively, a love letter from another boy,] the video maps out a world through kinship zones of im/material subjects in collaboration, translation, adaptation, correspondence, and conversion" (Renan Laru-an, curator).