coming of age, mother daughter relationship, culture, identity
When a stocky Filipino-American tween spills ketchup on a traditional heirloom dress, she must accompany her mother to the laundromat where her attempts to restore it only make her feel more displaced in her own skin.
Margarita Mina is a Filipina filmmaker from Quezon City, passing through NYC. Using digital video, film photography, and journal entries, her projects draw from a fascination with the weird intricacies of the female identity, the chaos of growing up, and the blurring of fiction with non-fiction in everyday documentation.
