Everything Has Disappeared

What would happen if every Filipino person in our society suddenly…disappeared?

Filipinos are domestic workers in Angola and construction workers in Japan. They staff the oil fields of Libya, with hundreds of thousands working as nannies in Hong Kong. They sing on the stages of remote provinces in China and help run hotels in the Middle East. A quarter of the world’s seafarers are Filipino, comprising 70% of workers on Japanese boats.

If they disappear. Everything disappears.

Everything Has Disappeared focuses on the very unique relationship the Filipino diaspora has to the global economy: they are everywhere and deeply involved in our lives as central threads in a tapestry that defines human dignity itself. Don’t think your life is interwoven with our Filipino brothers and sisters? Using digital interactive technologies – and a little magic – Everything Has Disappeared will prove otherwise. You will never look at your world the same again. 

Everything Has Disappeared puts faces to concerns that are often neglected, telling human stories that usually go unseen and unheard. When Venzon asks you to close your eyes, you listen. And when you open them, you learn.

Ben Waldman, Winnipeg Free Press (2024)

A mesmerizingly “tour de force play” aided by electronic wizardry and an electrifying performance of Hazel Venzon.

Rod Cantiveros, Filipino Journal (2024)