Cinema Regained: Noel Vera
Overview of films
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Boatman
Amable Tikoy Aguiluz | 110' | Philippines | None
Disconcerting portrait of ambitious newcomer in the world of sweaty sex shows, who seems to want to do anything to get success. A variation on… -
Demons
Mario O’Hara | 100' | Philippines | None
Original combination of romantic melodrama and realistic indictment of political abuse from the Marcos era with style attributes from the horror and f -
Escape
Chito Roño | 114' | Philippines | None
Strongly acted drama about two respectable Filipino citizens who are suddenly arrested by the army. They descend further and further into the mire of -
Eternity
Raymond Red | 25' | Philippines | -
Nightmares pursue the Faustian scientist. Eternal life is cold and expensive. -
In Just the Wink of an Eye
Mike de Leon | 97' | Philippines | None
Retired policeman holds a woman and daughter in a claustrophobic grip with his dictatorial behaviour. His son-in-law resists and the result is a confr -
Insiang
Lino Brocka | 95' | Philippines | None
Very intense film is probably Brocka’s masterpiece, about the most painful treachery imaginable: of the mother and family. ‘Eventually you are alone.’ -
Jesus the Revolutionary
Lav Diaz | 112' | Philippines | None
A military junta has taken power on the Philippines. Their takeover is fought by Moslem separatists, communists and rival military. In the middle of t -
The Last Wish
Amable Tikoy Aguiluz | 86' | Philippines | None
By the man who keeps the heritage of Lino Brocka alive on his own. Festival director and organiser. And maker ofunforgettable films. Like this one. -
Meckam
Raymond Red | 3' | Philippines | -
A rock band orders a music video, but the film maker already had his head in the next film. A surrealist carpet. -
Melancholy
Raymond Red | 7' | Philippines | -
Made with the video function of a mobile phone. And already in 2004. Low resolution. High poetry. -
Pelikula
Raymond Red | 5' | Philippines | -
Provided the young 8mm film maker Raymond Red with a mention in the The Oxford History of World Cinema. -
Shadows
Raymond Red | 12' | Philippines | -
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…