00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685954869149721192 Buklod 20240530154307.0 ta r 000 0 ta 240530s2023 ph a r 000 0 eng d DMC rda eng LG 993.5 M3 C368 2023 Cañete, Jo Antonette Molina author desilya Jo Antonette Molina Cañete. Quezon City College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines 2023 viii, 130 leaves color illustrations 28 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Vita. Thesis (B.A. Film) Includes bibliographic references (page 39) and appendices (pages 40-130). Available to the general public. Coming back home after thirteen years, a 16 year old is forced to remember what little she knows of home when her mother decides to run away. In a grueling road trip with her estranged grandmother, in a place that she has long forgotten, she soon realizes that she is not the only one looking for a mother. With one foot in the present and the other in the past, the three end up understanding that moving forward entails both feet and all six — together. desilya seeks to bridge the gap between trauma and cinema through the integration of Bazin's Theory of Realism and Meek's Trauma Theory in Film. Through the stark differences exhibited between what was and what is in the reality of the film and between what should have been and what is in the filmmaker's reality, the affective power of cinema creates an illusion of a presence that is manifestly an absence, ultimately pointing to the loss that is and the grief that has been. It is in cinema's capacity to convey loss and absence through establishing what is present and actual that the filmmaker is able to tell a story of loss through a search. Short films . Grief . Psychic trauma . Arumpac, Adjani G. adviser. FI UP UPD DMC LG 993.5 M3 C368 2023 Thesis