Bea Mariano (she/they) is an artist, experimental filmmaker and writer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Currently, she is trying out — slowly, gently, mindfully and out of necessity — automatic and expressionistic approaches to art-making. Occasionally, she transcribes for film projects and translates for a human rights organization. She codes web and mobile apps as a day job.
Her community-engaged work started with volunteering for Back to Square 1’s Off-Site/Out of Sight exhibit (2015) and from early 2017 continues with RESBAK.
She was also a fellow for poetry in Filipino at the Ateneo National Writers Workshop in 2016 and a digital fellow of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum’s Leaky Archive project in 2022, engaging with the institution’s Philippine colonial photographs collection. She received her BA in Art Studies from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Previous Screenings
Forthcoming
Screened as part of an omnibus at the 1st UPFI Experimental Film Festival 2019, Cine Adarna, University of the Philippines Diliman
Screened as part of “Transart Triennale 2016: The Imperceptible Self” and the “2016 London Biennale MANILA Pollination: Synchronisations – Syncopations” at 98B Escolta, Manila
First published in transit: an online journal and small press initiative
Co-directed with Liv Glascock, Neely Goniodsky, jade hawk, Alexander Kirshenbaum, Margot Murvihill, Natalee Ryan, Rana San, Hana Shiozaki, Ariana Simpson, Paul Siple, Chelsea-Werner-Jatzke; poem by Dao Strom
Risograph Animated Poetry Workshop with Zine Hug (Alex Barsky + Zack Lydon) and Cadence (Rana San + Chelsea Werner-Jatzke)
Screened in Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2024
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
TLDTD, a biannual journal for Filipino poets and poetry
Scout Magazine; part of a work-in-progress