The film’s concept adheres to formalist cinema, where the filmmaker’s thesis is to make a semblance of a vintage film seemingly produced sometime in the late 1920s to early 1930s in the Philippines. The thesis is to conjure up a film from a period that did not really exist in Philippine cinema’s historical cultural heritage as we know it, such as a pseudo-expressionist / experimental Filipino cinema of the silent film era. It is a film within a film. The narrative plays with the idea of a retro-futurist world where a prisoner locked away in a dark chamber for over two decades only sees the reality of the world outside through the small hole in his cell, which projects an image of the city on his wall, the phenomenon of the “camera obscura”.
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Cast
23 people
Pen Medina
Known for
Batang Quiapo
Ping Medina
Known for
Batang Quiapo
Mac Alejandre
Also in
Batang West Side
Radio
Raymond Red
Also in
Film
Beyond the Mainstream: A Salute to Philippine Independent Cinema
Lou Veloso
Also in
Maria Clara and Ibarra
The Heiress
Pablo Biglang-awa
Joel Torre
Known for
Dirty Linen
On the Job
Mon Confiado
Known for
On the Job
Nanding Josef
Abe Pagtama
Also in
Unlovable
Block Z
Henry Frejas
Butch Jimenez
Raymond Red Director · Cesar Hernando Production designer Danny Red Production designer
First release July 26, 2012 · Produced in Philippines · Production Pelipula Productions, Cultural Center of the Philippines
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Filmex
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Pelipula Productions
Production
Cultural Center of the Philippines
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Cinemalaya Foundation
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Philippines
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Languages
Original language
Tagalog
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Tagalog
Release dates
Philippines · July 26, 2012
Premiere · Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Netherlands
January 27, 2014 · International Film Festival Rotterdam
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