Through the medium of video, Comilang explores the conditions migrants face, looking at exploitation and adversity that groups endure when leaving a country for reasons out of their own control.
[4] Following three Filipina domestic workers, Irish May Salinas, Lyra Ancheta Torbela and Romylyn Presto Sampaga, who reside in Hong Kong, this 25.44 minute long film narrates the digital communication of these three women who relay their everyday lives of migratory work back to their homes and families.
Comilang traveled to Manila, Bangkok, and Tokyo which apparently have the highest number of Elvis impersonators per capita,[1] to interview families of these fathers and their shared experience.
This film explored the ways in which American imperialism pervaded these individuals experience through familial relationships, and also created a bond through which the "offspring of the king" could connect to each other.
[8] It All Makes Sense (2019), video and light installation A video and light installation for Nuit Blanche recreating the first time Comilang saw Perfumed Nightmare (1977) by Kidlat Tahimik, an influential figure in Filippino independent cinema who sparked Comilang’s interest in cinema and set a precedent for what she could create.