‘The medium is the message.’ Pelikula is a pure experiment with light, shadow, flickering and the persistence of image. This film, through its wide exposure in the 1980s in major film festivals (Berlin, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Hawaii, Tokyo), as well as major art institutions, established Raymond Red early on as a prominent artist experimenting with the Super-8 mm film format, as mentioned in The Oxford History of World Cinema. (NV)
Also in this combined programme
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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
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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