The article profiles Raya Martin, a motion picture director who is considered as the first filmmaker to represent the Philippines in the Un Certain Regard category of Cannes Film Fesival. Martin works on the overlapping trilogies "A Short Film About the Indio Nacional" and "Independencia." It notes that his trilogies re-establish the lost records of cinematic heritage. It points out that his anxiety about the present rests at the center of his subversive practice.