Autohystoria

Manila, 2006: a man is walking through the streets, as on a mission. At a roundabout, cars go round a monument to Andrès Bonifacio. Police cars rush by with blowing horns. In a police car, two young men, obviously brothers, terrified, petrified, arrested, hands tied. It is clear they have been beated in the jungle. Jungle landscape, sky, and finally images dating back to the turn of the 20th century, showing war ships and troops, and a title: “Aguinaldo’s navy”. In 1897, Andrès Bonifacio, the leader of the Katipunan clandestine independentist organization, and his brother Procopio were executed in a mountain forest, following the orders of Emilio Aguinaldo who was to become the leader of the national revolution (first as a resistant, then as a collaborator of the American occupation forces). A revolution victim of intestine struggle, a lost war, a new colonization.