Gelli Pascual is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, filmmaking, and poetry. Born in Manila and raised in the United States as an immigrant, much of her work comes from a deeply personal place: memory, cultural heritage, identity, and the experiences that shape how we understand home and belonging. She moves between mediums depending on what the story asks for, using photography to hold a moment still, film to give it movement, and poetry to say what sometimes cannot be expressed through an image alone.

At the heart of Gelli’s practice is a desire to create work that feels honest, intimate, and rooted in community while honoring her artistry. Her photographs have been exhibited locally and internationally, and several of her films have screened at film festivals, including recent recognition from PhotoVogue in Milanfor her short film A Woman Is…. She is drawn to stories that have been overlooked, carried quietly, or passed down through generations, and uses art as a way to honor them, reclaim them, and imagine something new. For Gelli, storytelling is a way of remembering where we come from while making space for where we can go next.