HEAVY FLOW, A Period Piece
Written, Directed and Edited by Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay)
Starring: Nathan Lunsford (The Storage Papers) as Father Motzie Dapul (Hi Nay) as Interpreter, Reynilyn, and the Child
Content Warnings: Abortion and herbal abortifacients, induced miscarriage and menstruation, poverty, child abuse by parents, religious abuse, patricide, matricide, mariticide (mentioned), livestock slaughter (mentioned), and lots of blood. Also Catholicism.
Summary: A Catholic priest offers his flock’s frightening, supernatural confessions to a hungry, unknowable beast. He's always hesitated, however, to share his own, until he finds himself relating a little too closely to a frightened young Filipina girl who looks to him for redemption, with the help of his "friend" the Interpreter.
A story about blood–menstrual, sacrificial, overflowing.
Note: Tagalog translations (for lines not translated by Interpreter) included in the transcript. TRANSCRIPT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLgK5kS8Q9RaOygNWuDiGb6JgQ8RLjOr/view?usp=drive_link