Taglish

At first there was Tagalog Gym Lumberas short and to his mind unfinished narrative about the infidelity that comes between a husband and wife in their twilight years shot on film and reflecting his own reallife infidelity And then there was a storm a real storm and not a metaphorical one that flooded his house and submerged and subsequently damaged the only copy of Tagalog This damaged version entitled English became the missing piece that completed the film The new work is named after Taglish the bastard hybrid some say corruption of Tagalog and English and has become a meditation on love and language and the ways in which we betray and destroy them