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Anak Where Did We Stay?

A woman in a wedding dress holding a bouquet sits on a green armchair, smiling at the camera
Three dances in motion wearing white Filipino costumes, with orange flowers in their hair and waving yellow and white flower garlands
A girl pointing smiling at the camera, pointing to the west coast of North America on a large sculpture of the earth.
Black and white. Two people stand on rocks, looking towards a shark in the ocean.
Black and white. People sat in a woven basket apparatus on a boat.

Synopsis

ANAK WHERE DID WE STAY? is a five-channel film by Sadia Pineda Hameed that brings together The Box’s home movie collection and the artist’s personal/family collection. Rasheed Araeen’s chakras, spouting waves, Beatlesmania, a basking shark, hula dance, an Enoch Powell protest, tidal islands and seafoam floating into the air—the archives converge across time to tell the story of the artist’s mother’s migration from one archipelago to another: the Philippines to the British Isles. The film becomes a gathering site for personal and collective experiences of journeys, resilience and belonging. Road trips unexpectedly reenact the archive, footage finds itself out of context, voices commentate the film as if rewatching a home movie together; mimesis, associations and autonomy are central to the retelling. As camcorders became more accessible from the 1970s onwards, home movies were an unconscious means to rebuild personal archives after colonial displacement, extraction and erasure. ANAK WHERE DID WE STAY?, named after the home movie from The Box’s archive 'Perranporth Where Did We Stay?', unfolds as a conversation between the artist and her mother, exploring the three interconnected journeys of migration, holidays and remembering. Produced as part of The Box’s Reimagining the Film Archive programme (BFI Screen Heritage Fund).
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Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
16 mins
Format
Hi8
Director
Sadia Pineda Hameed
Principal cast
Luisa Pineda Hameed

Genre

Art / Artists Asian Biography Experimental Woman Director

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sadia Pineda Hameed

Sales Company

Sadia Pineda Hameed

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