Joseph Dela Cruz

Nangungupahan follows the different lives of people who occupy a room of an apartment through different points in time. The room may mean differently to each occupant; and by overlapping these timelines, we gain insight about our shared space and history, as well as the bigger structures outside that affect us.

A painter goes on an exile after finding out he has Guillain Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder that prevents him from painting.

A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.