Previous Works
Theater
AMERICAN MAN
You know why I hate space?
CHINESE WOMAN
But you can defy it.
AMERICAN MAN
You are right about hating time. You can only steal some.
AMERICAN MAN
It was another year of good dreaming.
CHINESE WOMAN
Last year was just like yesterday. The sakura are in full bloom again.
AMERICAN MAN
They are so beautiful.
CHINESE WOMAN
They come in between the unbearable hotness and coldness.
AMERICAN MAN
They don’t last that long. Do you have them in Inner Mongolia?
CHINESE WOMAN
We have sandstorms.
-An excerpt from the Full Length English Play, Practical Aim
Film
Transient
Director/Writer Robert Deguzman
Qatar-Philippines/ Short Film/ 2012/ 7 min/ Colour/ HDCAM
2012 Doha International Film Festival (Qatar)/ 2012 Gulf Film Festival (UAE)/ 2013 Cannes Short Film Corner (France)
Dream-like images and reflections address the issues around imagining the concepts of home, identity, and belonging.
Poetry
Our future lies now in how we use our words
And shift ourselves through their meanings
We can reshape this world
History is not only about the past
But also about the enormous possibility of the present
—An excerpt from the Poetry collection, Those Years In Between
