N is for No Permanent Address (Mark Boulos), A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports
B. 1975 / Mark Boulos is an American filmmaker, based in Holland & Switzerland. Straddling the space between artist moving image and documentary film, his practice investigates the relationship between ideas, ideology and materiality. Boulos’ work will often address the space it is exhibited in, resulting in multi-channel video works – thus widening his audience reach, from contemporary art galleries to single screen projections at international film festivals.
Mark Boulos is obviously not Filipino, however he has been awarded an honorary #OFW Cultural Export, for his contribution to the continued plight for Filipino independence in ‘No Permanent Address’ (2010). ‘No Permanent Address’ is a 23 minute, 3-channel HD video, which re-imagines the New People’s Army (NPA), as a socialist, freedom fighting group. Exiled in the jungle and branded by the US government and perpetuated by the mainstream press as a terrorist organisation, Boulos provides the NPA with a platform to intelligently discuss philosophical Marxist ideas, in the battle against capitalism and corruption. A clip can be viewed at Mark Boulos Vimeo page.
#OFW more than a country of good looking, half-wit, opportunistic terrorists
