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Waiting for a Super Hero
Very active full-length film maker also turns out to operate well on the short track. A handful of people are basically waiting for nothing. You…Published on: -
Heremias (Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess)
Majestic masterpiece by the Filipino Lav Diaz who takes his time to tell a story with great emotion. In meditative black & white images, the…Published on: -
Rugby Boyz
Slim and cheerful boys.They seem to be playing rugby without a care. Maybe because they don’t have anything to worry about. Just one of the…Published on: -
Three Days of Darkness
It made the censors in the Philippines stutter. The filmmaker, in his vision of the Apocalypse as experienced by three women locked in a ghostly…Published on: -
To All the Super Girls I’ve Loved Before
From a simultaneously pointed and corny series about wretched superheroes.Published on: -
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…Published on: -
Green Rocking Chair
Roxlee is a real artist. He paints. Strange comic strip like paintings and that’s why he also makes comic strips. Even stranger surrealist comic stripPublished on: -
Tawidgutom
A film as a poem. So why did this filmmaker not become a poet? You’ll understand that as soon as you see his images.Published on: -
Beneath the Cogon
Cogon grass is a stubborn weed. It goes wild around the deserted mansion where a robber is hiding. The mansion turns out to be inhabited,…Published on: -
The Night When Father Told Me He Had a Child Outside
The intention can remain obscure. The feeling can be indefinable. The images can be seeking. Yet still it is clear.Published on: