Eternity is, in its twenty-five densely packed minutes, possibly one of the strangest Filipino films ever made. Its casually freewheeling camerawork evokes the giddy freedom of silent films, when the camera wasn’t tied down by cumbersome sound equipment; its oddly angled shots and shadowy visual textures recall the German Expressionists. It’s about a young man who is searching for a book, Ang Magpakailanman, which has the power to grant immortality. The film, which Red shot, wrote, and directed, won the 1983 Experimental Cinema of the Philippines’ student film competition, and is listed in the Cultural Centre of the Philippines Encyclopedia on Film. Not bad for a budding filmmaker only seventeen years of age… (NV)
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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
- 1983
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 25"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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