''Signos'' ''(Omens)'' is a 1983

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

that interviewed activists, church members, and artists at the height of protests after the

assassination of Ninoy Aquino Ninoy Aquino, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former Senate of the Philippines, Philippine senator, was assassinated on Sunday, August 21, 1983, on the airport apron, apron of Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila International Airport (no ...

. The film was made by a collective composed of Mike de Leon and other artists, under the Concerned Artists of the Philippines. Interviewees included Senator José W. Diokno, journalist Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, Sister Mary Christine Tan and Sister Mariani Dimaranan, and film director

Lino Brocka Catalino Ortiz Brocka (April 3, 1939 – May 22, 1991) was a Filipino film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and significant filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema. His filmography often addressed the co ...

. Parts of the documentary were shot on Super 8 mm film. Produced during martial law under the

dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party ...

, it depicted the street protests that were censored in the Marcos-controlled mass media. The documentary was screened at the New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

in 2022 as part of a retrospective on the works of Mike de Leon. De Leon discussed the documentary in his memoir ''Mike de Leon's Last Look Back''.

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