YCP 2025 Fellow
Javi Villaluz
From the landscapes of Philippines
Current Practice
Student filmmaker and writer taking up Bachelor of Arts in Film at De La Salle – College of St. Benilde, while indulging in poetics and Asian cinema
Bio
Javi Villaluz (he/him)
An emerging student filmmaker, creative writer; film critic from Northern Metro Manila.
His first love for Asian cinema molded into a continuous experimentation with writing, intertwining poetry and sincerity. So far, he has written for Southeast Asian indie magazine MARG1N, the upcoming KinoZine as part of film collective Kinoise PH and released a short film Dali’s Chime as apart of the PUP Filmbayan Open Program.
Javi continues to search for ways on defining his focus with others, encouraging collaboration through interiority and daydreaming.
Focus Areas for Exploration
Experimental framework and critique is something I’d like to learn and work with in the future, I can only imagine learning these topics whilst collaborating with others as it will encourage community engagement.
I hope to be able to find a defter sense of focus and form in writing while asking myself how these alternative; experimental forms of writing can bring forth different processes in constructing critiques and means of worldbuilding.