Queer East Festival 2024
17 — 28 April
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Longing for the Sun to Set Upwards
Philippines, 2022

Artists' Moving Image,
Directed by
Jao San Pedro
Running time
3 mins

Longing for the Sun to Set Upwards is an ode to the multiplicity, mutability, and expansion of what constitutes a body, a self, through imaging and technological mediations.   


Director Bio



Jao San Pedro (b. 1998, Philippines) is a visual artist working on the intersection of the body and its performativities, spanning movement, image, sound, film, object, sculpture, and installation. Her recent explorations examine the body and its capacity to break down, transgress, and transgender binary code and structure. 



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