{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox film | image = Conversation in Space.png | caption = Opening title | director = Rodolfo Paras-Perez | producer = Rodolfo Paras-Perez | cinematography = Rodolfo Paras-Perez | editing = Rodolfo Paras-Perez | released = {{Film date|1961}} | runtime = 2 minutes and 48 seconds | country = Philippines }}
'''''Conversation in Space''''' is a 1961 Philippine experimental abstract animated short film directed by Rodolfo "Rody" Paras-Perez, an UP-alumnus. Developed as Perez's thesis film under commission of University of Minnesota, it has no plot and dialogue entirely that illustrates with vivid and captivating abstract animation using collage and paint.
== Release == Despite having completed in 1961, ''Conversation in Space'' was screened at the first film festival held in Manila on 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Admin-Ngs |date=2022-06-07 |title=IN{{!}}SIGHT—Programme One |url=https://www.nationalgallery.sg/content/dam/microsites/paintingwithlight/field-experiments/insight-incite-inside-experimental-animation-from-the-region-programme-1/index.html |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Painting with Light |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Legacy == ''Conversation in Space'' is arguably the first non-commercial animation{{Efn|Although in some articles said "animation" is primarily used as "advertisement" or "commercial" in the 1950s, Larry Alcala did a short black-and-white animation on 8mm film at one point but never re-discovered.}} as well as one of the earliest experimental films from the Philippines, with its animations expand audience's perspectives of Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art.
In 2018, the film was screened at National Gallery Singapore’s ‘Painting with Light,’ an annual festival of international films on art, making it the earliest animation short film in the Philippines to be rediscovered.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fifth edition of Painting with Light film festival examines social interventions through art |url=https://www.nationalgallery.sg/sg/en/about/media-centre/fifth-edition-of-painting-with-light-film-festival-examines-social-interventions-through-art.html |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=National Gallery Singapore |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-24 |title=Painting with Light: Festival of International Films on Art 2022 by National Gallery Singapore / Singapore Art Museum - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/nationalgallerysingapore/docs/pwl2022_festival_booklet |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}</ref>
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== References == <references /> {{Authority control}} Category:1961 short films Category:Philippine animated short films Category:Philippine avant-garde and experimental films Category:Abstract animation Category:Non-narrative films Category:Thesis films Category:1960s Philippine films