i was never the siren 2025
This film is the first installment of the audio-visual performance work, Harana for the Aswang. Harana is a Filipinx serenade form rooted in courtship and grief rituals. The project reimagines and centralizes the narratives of various shapeshifting, mythological, animist, folkloric, “evil” spirits and creatures in Filipino folklore through the lens of their queer and trans descendants. Re-mything the Siren archetype, this film is in honor of sacred transsexuality and queerness through all timelines, a place for us to be swooned. To be seen in the defiant (im)possibilities of love and all that died in order for it to exist.
