Oda Sa Wala (Ode to Nothing) + dikit

dikit (2021)
Dir. Gabriela Serrano, 16min, DCP

A young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a different body. When a new couple moves in next door, she sees her chance to finally get one. Loosely based on a lost silent film by Jose Nepomuceno, Dikit reimagines classic Philippine folklore into a contemporary diptych of feminine bodies, rage, and freedom.

Oda Sa Wala (Ode to Nothing) (2018)
Dir. Dwein Baltazar, 92min, DCP
In Tagalog with English subtitles
With Pokwang, Joonee Gamboa, Angelita Loresco

Sonya is a living ghost, struggling to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. She wanders inside her lonely house, leaning heavily on her favorite Chinese song to get through the hours and days… Until an unexpected corpse lands at her doorstep. Developing a unique relationship with the unclaimed body, she becomes fascinated by the cadaver’s absorbing mystique.

One of the most captivating art-horror hybrids to emerge from the Philippines in recent years, Dwein Ruedas Baltazar’s Ode to Nothing  is a powerful meditation on the universal longing for connection in increasingly precarious and isolated times.