MIX-MIX

a film by Sally Cloninger

MIX-MIX (HALO-HALO) is a Filipino dessert, a memoir, a treatise on global feminism and misogyny, and a coming out story. My film travels from the back lanes of San Pedro and Biñan, Laguna in the Philippines, to the Quezon City TV studio used by the Women’s Media Circle for their ground-breaking feminist show, to a workshop where I first talk about “lesbian seeing” as a strategy, to Subic Bay where I explore the realities of coming out as a lesbian.

Like the dessert, it is experimental, complicated, a bit disturbing, layered, not for everyone, but ultimately, refreshing. With my cast I also realized that halo-halo, the dessert could be a metaphor or a strategy for experimental/personal filmmaking, especially this one.

MIX-MIX was shot in the Philippines over a period of three decades (16mm film, Hi-8 and 3/4" video). All production crew and subjects of MIX-MIX are women. 23:00, 2018.  Visit my Vimeo page to screen MIX-MIX and other work.