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Our primary mission as a household is to "live towards the heavens" as we foster a deep personal relationship with Christ by studying the Word. It is then our genuine desire to share zealously the joy of our personal identity uncovered in Christ Jesus as we simultaneously grow together in sisterhood.
I shot it with William in May, 2013 after looking at Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire" for the first time in a number of years. His film reminded me of my younger days as a filmmaker, exploring the city with the camera on a regular basis. More importantly, I realized that Wenders' film expressed the disconnected feeling I have with my own city. I love it but often do not feel like I belong there. As with "Wings of Desire" my character is detached and speaks in a voice over with subtitles, creating a second and third layer distant from directly connecting with the viewer. There were many places I went that I would have had no reason to go to had I not had a camera in hand. I decided it would be great to share this process with William, to show him this side of how I learned to explore.
William plays the role of an angel, clad in a long coat (vintage courtesy of Margaret) in a basically silent film. The text was written in English then translated to German by Gertrud Bessai who then helped William to perform the lines on tape. I cut together the sentences from William's one-word-at-a-time recording and the audience seemed impressed. I also presented simultaneous English translation in the form of subtitles projected below the film using an overhead projector (see clip shot from Erik Sirke in the front row, with unfortunate pov).
I grew up in a town 800 miles to the north. Mindanao, to me, feels like another country. As in the rest of the Philippines, 90 percent of the people here are Christians, but minority Muslims, or Moros, have been fighting a guerrilla war to turn Mindanao into an Islamic state. The Philippine government has resisted. Now they say their soldiers need Americas help to defeat the guerrillas.
[on camera] Today it was announced just as I got off the boat that the joint U.S. military exercises will be happening here in Jolo. And over here is one of the first messages youll see as you enter town.
[voice-over] The people here have always resisted outsiders. For three centuries, the Spanish colonizers were unable to subdue Mindanaos Muslims. A hundred years ago, when the United States drove the Spanish from the Philippines, the Americans succeeded in conquering Mindanao, but not before the Moros mounted a fierce and bloody resistance. In the Moro-American war, the U.S. massacred thousands of Muslims.
SINGER: [subtitles] The Americans are coming back again. They want to take back the Philippines. But the Muslims keep on waging war. The Americans do not follow the Divine Law. They will steal our independence.
ORLANDO DE GUZMAN: When the Americans first came here, Mindanao was almost entirely Muslim. The central government urged many Christian immigrants to settle here, and after World War II, Mindanao was formally annexed. Muslim rebels still insist all of Mindanao belongs to them, but the government says it cannot afford to lose resource-rich Mindanao. It supplies around half of the Philippines export revenue.
I arrived in March, as the Philippine government was conducting a major offensive. Peace talks had broken down. There were gun battles every day, and we heard news of an ongoing battle in the village of Baliki.
[on camera] The Philippine army is having to fight the MILF in places like this. The MILF is waging a classic guerrilla warfare. They come in, hit these villages hard. So what the army is trying to do is drive them out of here.
[voice-over] This day, the enemy remained elusive. In fact, the military seldom does more than keep the MILF at bay. At the end of the day, the villages are left back in the hands of armed civilians, at risk of being attacked again. Farmers work the fields armed with guns.
FARMER: [subtitles] Were scared. The MILF fire at us because they want us to leave our fields. It would be better if they only attacked the military, instead of civilians. We just want to earn a living. We dont want trouble.
ORLANDO DE GUZMAN: [voice-over] The conflict has also come to the cities. On April 2nd, a bomb exploded in the mostly Christian city of Davao. Sixteen people were killed. The government claimed the bombing was carried out by the MILF, with the help of Jemaah Islamiya, the group responsible for the Bali nightclub bombing. I arrived in Davao the day after the attack.
Muslims are also victims of violence. A few hours after the Davao bombing, unidentified men in fatigues attacked three nearby mosques with hand grenades. An imam told me that Muslims are suffering the most in this war. The numbers bear him out. While hundreds of Christians are driven from their villages by the MILF, tens of thousands of Muslims have fled their homes because of the military offensives.
They seek refuge in evacuation centers. Some refugees have been here for the last three years. They now number 320,000. Its a miserable life in these centers. Since February, 54 refugees have died of illness. Food is scarce.
I went along with these Muslim refugees as they returned to their homes to scavenge for crops theyd abandoned during the fighting. When we arrived, the village was still an active combat zone and troops patrolled the area for MILF rebels.
[on camera] So this area is still a very hostile place. The Philippine army officer here was telling these villagers not to venture out too far because the troops might mistake them for MILF rebels.
ORLANDO DE GUZMAN: [voice-over] Most of the homes were destroyed. Another man found his home vandalized by the military with anti-MILF graffiti. Most Muslims feel theyre at the mercy of the Philippine military. Although they wont say it openly, they view the MILF as a legitimate organization that defends their communities and their faith.
Through our contacts, I arranged for a meeting with the MILFs military chief. I grabbed my flak jacket. And my producer, Margarita Dragon, was told she was required to wear a head scarf. We set out on a journey to MILF-controlled territory.
[on camera] When I was growing up here in the Philippines, my parents never let me ride on top of these jeepneys because its just too dangerous. But this gives you the best view of the countryside. My MILF contacts havent exactly told me where were heading, but for the past hour, weve been going up this very rough road.
[voice-over] When the road ended, we set off for a long hike deep into rebel-held territory. These mountain slopes mark the end of government control and the start of MILF country, an area called Camp Abubakar. Abubakar spans 12,000 acres and once had more than 10,000 Muslim residents. It had a Sharia court, a jail, several mosques and schools. But in the year 2000, in what was called the "all-out war," the Philippine government destroyed key sections of Abubakar.
Although pushed underground, the MILF still controls most of their former territory. Like many revolutionary groups, it relies on a rotating volunteer force. Our guides are MILF members who reside in the city but come up to the mountains to serve their tour of duty in Abubakar.
[voice-over] Most of the villagers here have fled. But on our way up, we met an old man who refused to leave even though the military destroyed his home. I asked him why he decided not to move to the city, like many others.
OLD MAN: [subtitles] We wont have anything to live on in the city. We cant grow corn. Its difficult. You dont have any livestock. You dont have money. We cant earn a living, nothing. Weve been here for generations.
ORLANDO DE GUZMAN: [voice-over] He showed me what was left of his home. He said hell be ready the next time the military comes. This 70-year-old man just bought a rifle and says hes prepared to fight.
Later, we met up with armed MILF soldiers who were sent to meet and escort us deeper into the jungle. After 14 hours of hiking, we reached this, an empty concrete house. It looked like nothing to me, but i was told it was once MILF headquarters. The house was bombed and overrun by the government during the "all-out war." Since then, the rebels have quietly retaken large sections of Abubakar, and they hang on to this house as a symbol of their strength. I couldnt help feeling that this empty house was more a symbol of isolation than strength.
ORLANDO DE GUZMAN: Congressman has been fighting for 30 years. After two days of listening to MILF grievances, I still hadnt met their chief military commander. Suddenly, we were told to go back to the city and wait.
I returned to Cotabato, a city where the population is split 50/50 between Christian and Muslim. Cotabato lies in a province where the MILF is very active. I went to talk to the governor, Emmanuel Piol. Hes strongly critical of the MILF, especially their tactics.
Governor EMMANUEL PIOL: Representing legitimate grievances of the Moro people is one thing. Killing civilians by bombings, killing civilians by burning them alive is another. Within the MILF is a group that is holding sway right now that will not be contented with anything less than an Islamic state and who are linked to the al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya. Where are they going to establish an Islamic state? How do you come up with an independent Islamic state with the presence of Christians in Mindanao? Its going to be a messy problem.
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