A Study for the Skies
This short film is actually a study that Red made in preparation for the full-length concept Ang himpapawid/The Skies which he and collaborator Ian Victoriano were developing in the early 1980s. It turned out to be a successful short film in it’s own right, garnering citations from local awards institutions and going on to international film festivals in Europe, Asia and North America. It is a simple poetic story of a man building flying machines in his attempt to achieve free flight, as a representation of his quest for freedom, a poignant and also comic impression of man’s age-old dream of flight. (NV)
Also in this combined programme
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Pelikula
Provided the young 8mm film maker Raymond Red with a mention in the The Oxford History of World Cinema.
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Meckam
A rock band orders a music video, but the film maker already had his head in the next film. A surrealist carpet.
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Shadows
With this film, the maker won the Golden Palm for short film in 2000. But he already was the king of the short film in the Philippines.
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Melancholy
Made with the video function of a mobile phone. And already in 2004. Low resolution. High poetry.
Film details
- Country of production
- Philippines
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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