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In Order to Escort Her

In In Order to Escort Her, Lila, a Waray elder, reunites with her Filipina-American niece, prompting another relative's visit from a distant realm and invoking the ever-expanding present moment. (USA, 36 MIN)

  • Kimberly Maxime Baglieri
    Director
  • Kimberly Maxime Baglieri
    Writer
  • Kimberly Maxime Baglieri
    Producer
  • Lila Calleja
    Key Cast
    "herself"
  • Marietta Calleja
    Key Cast
    "herself"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    poetic, sci-fi, hybrid, hybrid-doc
  • Runtime:
    36 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 22, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    11,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Philippines
  • Language:
    Other
  • Shooting Format:
    DSLR, Nikon D750
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Hunter College, Integrated Media Arts
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Tripvill International Film Festival
    Brooklyn, NYC
    United States
    January 29, 2022
    Best Documentary Short
  • FlickFair On-Demand Film Festival
    Streaming On-Demand
    United States
    February 1, 2022
    On-Demand Premeire
    Official Selection
  • Social Impact Film Festival
    Streaming
    United States
    April 1, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Doc NYC
    New York City
    United States
    November 12, 2021
    North American Premeire
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Kimberly Maxime Baglieri

Kim Maxime Baglieri is a filmmaker, painter, video-artist and art educator born in New York City and based in Brooklyn. To create her work, Baglieri often draws from her FIlipin@ and Armenian ancestries as well as her queer experience.

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Director Statement

I create hybrid documentaries that weave fact and fiction while employing detailed observation. My work investigates departure and presence, death and rebirth, the queer body, ancestral animist technologies, storytelling and art as healing and the myths of borders and linear time. My work functions as oral history while also functioning conceptually. I employ different methods to make the work's construction and my directorial intervention evident. I bring the viewer into a meditative space where themes and ideas emerge as discoveries and questions. To do so, I layer sound, song, voice over and conversation, and create scenes that are observational, performed, reenacted and/or abstracted.