We are delighted to announce that Jim J. Lumbera and Joey A. Singh are the winner of our Expanded Cinema Residency open call, part of the SPECTRAL project.
Jim Jasper Lumbera (b. 1986) and Joey Alexis Singh (b. 1993), are filmmakers and visual artists from the Philippines. Their practice as a duo comfortably moves from film and photography to site-specific installations and new media art.
At the FWP they are going to work on the project “A Badly-made Figure in an Obscure Fishing Village”, a visual study that arise from a creative research about a cremation burial excavated along one of the cave entrances in the island of Palawan, Philippines. This visual study seeks to explore the concept of the burial rites, where the “image” and the “form” are separated and transformed, before finally buried. During the SPECTRAL Expanded Cinema Residency, they will work on a performative moving image of obscured forms and figures from underwater sonar recordings, to be presented as a 5-channel 16mm film projection.

We are going to host them from the end of August until the beginning of October where they are going to present their new work as part of our Back to the Future Festival. Stay tuned to know more about their work at the FWP!
Their body of work was supported by Asia Culture Center, South Korea (2022); Edith-Russ Haus for Media Arts, Germany (2021); Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2021), and the Film Development Council of the Philippines (2021). Their work was also shown at Green Papaya Art Projects, Philippines (2023). Lumbera’s films and video works were exhibited in Documenta ’14, Germany (2017); Museum of Moving Image New York, USA (2012); EXPERIMENTA, Artists’ Moving Image, 57th BFI London Film Festival (2013); International Competition FIDMarseille, France (2013); The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Australia (2016); Wavelengths: Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2012) and many more.

Expanded Cinema Residency SPECTRAL
August 25th - October 5th 2023
Jim J. Lumbera and Joey A. Singh

Residency Outcome

Video documentation of 'A Badly-made Figure in an Obscure Fishing Village' six channel projection performative installation during our Back to the Future Festival #3 with words by the artists Jim J. Lumbera and Joey A. Singh interviewed by Lichun Tseng for our BttF Festival Radio Program on the 1st October 2023 at WORM, in collaboration with WORM Radio.