November 3. 2008

Crisostomo Juan Andaluz
NEKRO

20min

A man. A funeral home. A roomful of flesh. And the consequences of pushing the limits of desire.

Experiments in Terror
Abstract & Experimental Horror

Length: 146 min

As if by some irresistible compulsion to witness the mortification of the flesh, EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR perversely unearths a celluloid sarcophagus of horrible, horrible beauty...
a phantasmagoria of the uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre...
a pathological delirium of witchcraft, phantoms, and the undead. Using visionary cinematography and a masterful montage of rare film artifacts, these amoral auteurs probe every dark corner of the human psyche, with morbid curiousity and in lurid detail! This shocking program explodes the genre of the horror film, profoundly expanding the cinematic language of fear.
Includes:
• "Outer Space - Peter Tscherkassky
o Gavin Smith's Films Of The Year, Film Comment
o Golden Gate Award - Best Short, San Francisco International Film Festival
o Audience Award - Best Film, Cinematexas
• "Tuning The Sleeping Machine" - David Sherman
o Official Selection, 1997 Whitney Biennial; 1996 New York Film Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival; VIPER (Lucerne, Switzerland)
• "Ursula" - Lloyd M. Williams
o Gold Medallion, Cannes Film Festival, 1961. Best Scripted Film, Best Special Effects for Sustained Horror
• "Dawn of An Evil Millennium" - Damon Packard
• "Journey Into The Unknown" - Kerry Laitala
• "The Virgin Sacrifice" - J.X. Williams

Renei Dimla
ANOMI
University of the Philippines

6min 50sec

A scavenger selling flies to rich man for feeding his giant pet fish becomes a metaphor of the cycle of life and death that happens between the rich and the poor.

November 10, 2008

Mel Rose Miranda Aguilar
PISI (STRING)
University of St. La Salle Bacolod

An Overseas Filipino Worker, her foreign employer, and the brown bag man. All the world’s a stage and everyone is a string puppet.

Brian Javier
KAMATIS (TOMATO)
Colegio de San Juan de Letran

8min 3sec

The anxiety, pain and ecstasy of that one day every prepubescent boy fears - - -the day he gets circumcised.

Tampere Film Festival Short Film Festival Collection

169 min

The Tampere Film Festival is a short film festival held every March in the Finnish town of Tampere. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the short film festivals in Oberhausen and Clermont-Ferrand, it is among the most important European short film festivals. Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... Location within Finland Tampere (Swedish name Tammerfors) is a city in southern Finland located between two lakes: Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi . ... Oberhausen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Clermont-Ferrand is a city of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of approximately 140,000. ...

The first festival was held in 1969, and since 1970 it has been held in its current form, which makes it the oldest short film festival in Scandinavia.

Yearly, almost 500 short films are shown - both international and Finnish ones - and there are lots of seminars and other activities surrounding the festival.

In the year 2006, the festival had more than 30.000 people attending.

Jose Marquez Basa
AMPO

4:12

Ramon’s devout life under the tutelage of his grandmother takes a strange turn.

November 17, 2008

Minco Fabregas
123
International Academy of Film and Television Cebu

4min 23sec

The story of a boy, of a magic spider that grants him his every desire , of being careful what you wish for.

Jedd Chris
KUMOT NG PANAGINIP (BLANKET OF DREAMS)
University of the Philippines

20min

Loss and regret through the eyes of a motherless young boy.

Afro Promo
Curated by Jenni Olson and Karl Knapper

131 min

Oh yeah! Alternatively trashy and poignant – and sometimes just plain hard to believe these days – here's an irresistible program of Black Cinema trailers that trace its evolution through its most crucial period, 1946-1976.

Filled with insights on race and social dynamics, this fascinating compendium of Coming Attractions explores an extensive range of stylistic approaches – Blaxploitation, Comedy, Music Bio, Plantation Drama, and more – all smartly organized by genre, or viewable as one outrageous joyride through motion picture history.

Beyond mere camp, these marvelously condensed gems crystallize a range of African-American identities and personalities, tracking the meteoric careers of Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, et al, through their bold performances in movies both hugely popular and practically forgotten.

Be careful or you just might learn something.
"A sometimes funny, sometimes frightening look at Tinseltown's presentation of Blacks." – Edward Marguiles, Movieline

"Offers considerable fun, and food for thought." – Dennis Harvey, Variety

"A picture tells a thousand words, but a shameless movie trailer can say even more." – Barry Walters, SF Examiner

Mark Sherwin Maestro
PUBLICO MACATA (PUBLIC POET)
De La Salle University

A societal eulogy.

November 24, 2008

Jan Philippe V. Carpio
VTR

10min 40sec

How much of our life are we in on and how much are we out of?

Antoinette Jadaone
SALING PUSA

7min

How innocent is this girl playing a strange game with three men on the streets of Pasay?

Berlin Super 80

120 min

"Berlin Super80" A flashback of early 80s Berlin subculture featuring output by virtuosos of the city's underground movie scene who rediscovered Super 8 as an adequate outlet for their creative endeavours. Accompanied by a compilation of music, covering a huge range of styles and currents - from punk to ingenious dilettantes, this lavish package recalls the walled in city's unique feel and lifestyle. By no means a nostalgic review of times long gone, but rather an appraisal (with no claim to completeness) of a creative Berlin which to this day exerts its influence on Gemany pop culture and beyond.

Juan Manuel Alcarazaren
ULTRA
University of the Philippines

3min 30sec

Imagistic and experimental exploration on the nature of desire and how far you would go for the girl you love.

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