LUMAPIT SA AKIN, PARAISO (COME TO ME PARADISE)
Stephanie Comilang

Paraiso, an all-seeing drone spirit, is summoned every Sunday into the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather to socialize. In the artist’s words: “The ghost or spirit in my film is called Paradise. She acts as an intermediary between the women and their place of origin. Often, when ghosts are portrayed in films, they try to find their way to the other side, and humans act as mediators to facilitate this passing. But in my film, it is the opposite. Paradise is the mediator who sends the women’s messages back home to their loved ones.” As the women claim the public space, Comilang’s sci-fi documentary considers social connections in today’s age of economic migration and modern technology.