A Cyborg's Guide to Pleasure
by Miko Peralta | University of the Philippines - Diliman
Best Editing
2:19 | Experimental
Logline: A young male cyborg navigates between their biological and technological selves as they seek to feel pleasure and pain efficiently in the heavily controlled cyberspaces.
Synopsis: A young male cyborg seeks to feel pleasure and pain by addictively scrolling through the dominant cyberspaces controlled by powerful men. In their search, the cyborg is aroused by sexual human images of men, and eventually, dominant "daddy figures." It is these daddy figures that introduce him to pleasurable pain. The cyborg shifts from his biological to technological self in order to efficiently reach an orgasm.
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Filmmaker's Profile
Miko Peralta
"MIKO" MIGUEL LORENZO PERALTA is an independent filmmaker from the University of the Philippines Film Institute, who works as a freelance film and video editor, sound designer, and musical scorer. His interests in creating experimental documentary films stem from a desire to explore memory, history, and identity through the use of personal archives, both physical and digital, playing with its form, while also having a distinct approach to sound design. He participated in a Southeast Asian creative documentary storytelling workshop, AsiaDoc, organized by Forum Film Dokumenter and Docmonde-France, to develop a project on his personal experiences and reflections on flooding in Marikina. He has also worked in post-production on numerous short film projects, including several online digital theatre productions for the Ateneo de Manila University.
Crew
Starring: @FarlotheElf [Alter name] Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Camera, Sound: Miko Peralta
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