Manuel Mesina III

While hunting for pitcher plants, a taciturn poacher encounters an unexpected object in the middle of the forest and finds himself listening to someone grieving about their hair.

Beastmode interweaves what at first sight seem to be two unconnected storylines: the first two years of rule by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, notorious for his war against drugs, and the reconstruction of a social and artistic experiment about violence and performance—a sort of Fight Club 2.0.