A controversial digital exploration of coming of age in the slums of Davao City in the Phillipines. Two boys, Rabat and Allen, live in sewers and cemeteries, surviving through petty crime. Sanchez captures an intimate, anti-narrative world of experience, sex, and conversation framed by wandering through the landscape of the glittering city. But poverty and alienation in Davao are also framed by violence - death squads and disappearances who seek to clean the city of its juvenile delinquents. A raw, complex, compelling work exploring the slums without the Hollywood/Bollywood gloss of Slumdog Millionaire's happy ending. |