​World Premier of ISLAND BOUND, a short film by Sami See featuring a live musical performance of the film score by Pinay Voltron.

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Catch a vibe and relax into an experimental sound and visual experience that explores fantasy and relational resilience through the female body and island landscape.

​ISLAND BOUND documents queer-femme filipina performing artists Paula Bianca, Sami See, Mistress Joyen as a Sirena [mermaid], Diwata [fairy] and Lilim [spider], weaving movement disciplines of aerial hammock, underwater dance, rope flow, and roller skating to embody and story a singular question: when a flood meets your island, how will you move?

The original film score produced by Pinay Voltron will be performed live in the theatre. The hybrid atmospheric sound bath will journey you through a 1:1 percussive meditation, jungle vibes, and orchestral strings building on the film & visuals.

+++ THE PREMIER includes a special performance by Spain-based performance artist Mistress Joyen & more goooooodies TBA ++++

​+++ This event is part of the San Francisco API Cultural Center's annual United States of Asian America Festival: Common Ground <<< check the link for other bay area events celebrating AAPI iconic creators.

​****ABOUT THE ARTISTS***

​SAMI SEE, ISLAND BOUND director, is a SF-born and based researcher-artist working across film, public art, and mixed media. She collaborates with communities and scientists in aging, health, climate, neuroscience, and policy to explore how behavior and perception shape the impact of time on human and non-human bodies. Her work examines the boundaries of scientific knowledge and envisions alternative relationships to place, time, and survival, tracing the parallels between ecological and social systems, and the bodies caught within them.

​Sami is a former Emerson Collective Dial Fellow and National Institute of Mental Health Research Scholar, and has been a collaborator and featured artist in the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center's United States of Asian America Festival since 2016. Yiiii!

​PINAY VOLTRON, ISLAND BOUND sound designers, are a multi-generational collective of Pinay + Queer musicians from the Bay Area, CA. With over a decade of experience as multi-instrumentalists, their band spans genres from Filipino cultural sounds to R&B, Soul, Rock, Hip-Hop, and Jazz. Their sound celebrates the power of Pinay musicianship and B.C.E (Big Coochie Energy). Check them out on NPR's TINY DESK with rapper Ruby Ibarra and their latest EP Everyones Busy on Bandcamp.

​MISTRESS JOYEN, ISLAND BOUND producer, is a filmmaker, performing artist, shibari and rope flow practitioner, internationally erotic pole dance champion, and a burlesque stripper dominatrix from the Philippines, based in Barcelona, Spain. Her expertise lies in aesthetically pleasing and acrobatic tormenting rope bondage, and Her interest lies in the realm of elegant fetish and erotica. See more of her on IG @joyenjoyen.

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+++ Special thanks to the SF Arts Commission, SF Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation & California Arts Council for supporting our creative work and keeping SF artists in the Bay to make art for the people +++