BAKUNAWA Opera of the Seven Moons (2022)

Bakunawa rose from the ocean so mesmerized by the light of the seven moons that she devoured them all Dismayed the people emerged making noise and begging Bakunawa to give them back the moonlight Bakunawa agreed and returned the seventh moon back into the sky thus creating the first lunar eclipse Part sonic ritual part diasporic storytelling BAKUNAWA Opera of the Seven Moons is an experimental operafilm based on Micaela Tobins criticallyacclaimed album of the same name that reclaims the precolonial mythology of the Philippines back from centuries of violent colonial erasure