Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

An iconoclastic artist, Nathalie Talec moves between live performance, installation, sculpture, and painting. The One Who Sees Blindly, her first solo exhibition in the United States, brings together many of her recurring themes.

The latest Room for Big Ideas installation, Reimagine: That Which We Know But Don’t Realize, explores the ways in which we simultaneously create and conceal meaning in landscapes, and how that process defines us in relation to our environment.

By Monster Jimenez
US Premiere; producer in person
In 1969, Victor Pearson arrived in the Philippines, having survived a bomb blast while fighting in Vietnam. He married a Filipino woman. Over the next few decades, he would marry a few more. He soon built himself a harem, partially populated with underage girls. Kano, through interviews with Pearson and his wives, uncovers a sordid tale of love, sex, crime and madness, all the while shedding light on the sad republic that allowed it to happen. (2010, 80 min)

By Mes de Guzman
US Premiere
A scrappy band of poor kids roam the streets and countryside in the Nueva Vizcaya province, finding humor and friendship despite their desperate circumstances. A fine example of Filipino social realist filmmaking, it neither romanticizes poverty nor simplistically condemns it. Instead, it slowly allows the weight of the children’s circumstances to overwhelm the viewer, in a nuanced portrait of the reality of everyday survival. (2011, 100 min)

By Benito Bautista
Director Benito Bautista and star Edwin Nombre in person
Boundary is set in the crowded urban roadways of Manila during Christmas. A nervous taxi driver picks up an easy-going businessman as his last passenger for the night. Their journey together to a far-flung suburb takes a wrong turn in more ways than one, and becomes a wickedly tense portrait of urban anxiety and shifting identities. (2011, 110 min)
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