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“You know,” i say to no one in particular. “this had better be worth it.” the faceless crowd continued milling past me. cars zoomed and buses chugged by, leaving nothing but trails of exhaust. it was moments away from rush hour, and from experience, i knew a sea of people was about to descend upon [

I stared at your name, beside it was NO REPLY. ‘Yet,’ I added in my head. No reply yet. I’m sure you’ll attend, won’t you? My wedding is in two weeks. It’s in two weeks, and here I am counting the seconds before my feet stop feeling so cold and I have to sign myself [...]

Mayari ran the back of her hand across her forehead. It was hot, the baking sun almost at full midday when she finally finished her task. Her hands were tired and sticky from the effort; soot and blood and sweat encrusted under her nails and between the creases of her palms and fingers.   My [...]

Mr. Eugenio Perez, Gene to his friends, Asshole to everyone else, sat quite content at his usual spot on one of the bar’s couches. He was having a pleasant time alone when a woman plopped on the seat across from him and said, “You’re quite the destroyer of dreams, aren’t you.” She had already placed

I’m back on my desk, back to work, and back to breathing Metro Manila air so thick that on some days, you can almost touch it. I’ve just come back from a week-long break in the hopes that I’ll be able to leave my stress on a baggage conveyor belt at NAIA Terminal 3. On [...]

by Lei Velasco We had started planning for Valentines four months in advance. No, not plans for a romantic candle-lit dinner, or a lovely stroll in the park because as early as October we already knew that this will yet be another Valentine’s spent alone like all the other Valentines in our twenty-s

As a belated happy birthday gift to myself, I bought myself a wi-tribe 4g modem. I could’ve bought myself a toy or a book (priorities of a 28 year old), but since I work and play on the Internet, I thought the heck with it, right? Plus, they’ve announced that they’re increasing the speeds across [..

.MOV International Film, Music, & Literature Festival has teamed up with The Antithesis Collective Publishing Co. to produce an anthology of epic proportions.

.MOV International Film, Music, & Literature Festival has teamed up with The Antithesis Collective Publishing Co. to produce an anthology of epic proportions.

It’s been quite a decade for MOVFest, and this September, the triennial tradition continues with the 4th .MOV International Film, Music and Literature Festival. What started out as a platform for the pursuit of and education on the digital medium as a tool for filmmaking has now evolved to include m