Oct 31, 2024
HEAVY FLOW, A Period Piece
Written, Directed and Edited by Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay)
Starring:
Nathan Lunsford (The Storage Papers) as Father
Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay) as Interpreter, Reynilyn, and the Child
Content
Warnings: Abortion and herbal abortifacients,
induced miscarriage and menstruation,
poverty, child abuse by parents, religious abuse, patricide,
matricide, mariticide (mentioned),
livestock slaughter (mentioned), and lots of blood. Also
Catholicism.
Summary: A
Catholic priest offers his flock’s frightening, supernatural
confessions to a hungry,
unknowable beast. He's always hesitated, however, to share his own,
until he finds himself
relating a little too closely to a frightened young Filipina girl
who looks to him for redemption,
with the help of his "friend" the Interpreter.
A story about blood–menstrual, sacrificial, overflowing.
Note: Tagalog translations (for lines not
translated by Interpreter) included in the transcript.
TRANSCRIPT:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLgK5kS8Q9RaOygNWuDiGb6JgQ8RLjOr/view?usp=drive_link