For Early Filipinos, like many still today, it is believed that a life force or soul inhabits all entities, animate or inanimate. These spirits are called “anitos”. ANITO is a future folklore informed by the collective’s ancestry, queer embodiment and diverse history of practice. The work centres the importance of nature spirits, intuiting with them as guides towards imagining possible parallel futures. In the performance, wondrous ecologies emerge from a shifting, fertile landscape crafted by hands and activated by bodies. Megafauna dance deep time. Roots from the ancestral underworld create cracks in colonial foundations. Seasons change, in a world of sheer terror and tremendous beauty. — Justin Talplacido Shoulder & The Future Folklore Collective