It is a tough act to follow the last two years for cinema. 2022 and especially 2023 were extraordinary years for movies and was quite frankly, the final shaking off of the pandemic by the global film industry.

Such stories depict a world wherein robots perform all the menial tasks that normally would eat a sizable chunk out of a person’s time and energy, and humanity is then left with whatever artistic passions and scientific developments are gained with such newfound time and energy. How depressing it is then that in reality the robots are making poetry while human people are clocking in at the factory lines.

The plan was simple. Visit every single one of the 22 museums participating in this year’s Gabii sa Kabilin, an annual one-night event where museums all across Metro Cebu have their doors open until midnight for people to stop by.