Count is a video essay that explores data generated in a milieu of oppression. It is set during the Philippine pandemic lockdown, the longest in the world enforced with strict police rule. Folding in news of the outside world bearing numbers of the Philippine Drug War and COVID-19 fatalities into the everyday, it maps how the spectre of a colonial history impinges on the daily contemporary life of a middle class family.
—Adjani Arumpac