Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa, A Film Screening, Conversation, and Celebration

Active Cultures presents the Los Angeles premiere of the Berlin and New York-based duo’s newest film, Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth) (2023). The film will be followed by a conversation between Enzo, Ami and Xenia Tupas, a movement elder who grew up on Negros Island, and whose personal history is intimately woven with the story in the film. A lifelong journalist and human rights activist, Xenia has served the same plantation workers who demanded systemic change during the people’s strike in 1985, fighting for peasant’s rights for fair land redistribution after the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law was passed in the wake of Marcos’ deposition.

Join us after the screening and talk for Dapat Bawiin (We Shall Reclaim), a community celebration featuring food and performances by Los Angeles Filipinx chefs and musicians. All are welcome!

5 PM: Screening of Ami Lien & Enzo Camacho: Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth) (2023)
6 PM: Talk with the artists and Xenia Tupas
7–10 PM: Dapat Bawiin (We Shall Reclaim), a Community Celebration

This program is part of a weekend long series of programs called Langit Lupa. For over a decade, Berlin and New York-based artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien have developed a multidisciplinary practice addressing geopolitical relations by attending to localized forms of dispossession, survival, and resistance, particularly in the context of the Philippines. Their current work pays particular attention to agricultural practices and the exploitation of land and labor in Negros, an island known for sugarcane production in the Philippines.