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- A old man from the Panay Bukidnon Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines named Amang Baoy, and his youngest son, Rohan, sit quietly in a bonfire under the full moon one evening when the latter looked very sad, prompting the father to chant a portion of the Suguidanon Epic of the Panay Bukidnon of Western Visayas region in the Philippines. This portion of the epic which is handed down through oral chanting history narrates the golden hero, Humadapnon, poisoned by the "binukot" (well-kept maidens) and will be resurrected only by the water from the river where Pabayhu (the hungry crocodile) lives. The water was to be fetched by Banog (The Hawk) at the command of the warrior Sunmasakay who will eventually turn into Mali, the most beautiful woman of the land who is love interest of Humadapnon. The Story of Banog in the epic led the father to teach Rohan the Visayan Hawk Dance "Binanog" inspired by the movement of the Visayan Hawk, symbolizing hope and celebration, reminiscing scenes from Amang Baoy and Rohan's indigenous family and their community. Eventually, the characters in the epic become inspiration to move on with hope and bravery as indigenous peoples face the challenges of modern life.
- Motivated by emotional turmoil and day-job related exhaustion, the filmmaker creates a video letter to his Experimental Video class with hopes to help exorcise personal demons. Recording on used tapes and utilizing current illness, this semi-autobiographical film metaphorically structures a visual collage of the filmmaker's wants, desires and lamentations, strongly hinting of his retreat (or is it escape?) from urban chaos and his complete submission to creative freedom, leading to his resignation from corporate and government-related jobs in 2007.
- A group of young friends bum around their condo unit and talk about mundane and trivial things which have value to them anyway. They play music and play with a balloon. They eat dried fish and chocolate brownies. When two neighbors try to pay them a visit, things get blurry.
- Raymound Loux battles his demons and goes beyond what his parents expects of him. He is to be an embalmer but he wants to be more than that, creating an inner revolution and evoking the resilience of cockroaches.
- Little girl Rosa claims to see a "tamawo" (Hiligaynon term for "dark supernatural beings" in Ilonggo folklore) whenever she wakes up from sleep. The trauma forces her to be awake all the time. As a result, she lacks sleep and affects her schooling and tutoring activities. With an insensitive widower father, Rosa only has her tutor, teacher Irene, to help her conquer her fears caused by both real and the supernatural.
- A pious woman accidentally killed her supposed murderer. She gets to live her life plagued by her conscience which she needs to come to terms with.
- The explorations of personal spaces and the passing of time are subjected to a visual meditation in "Quaresma". During the holy week, the lives of two men are slowly intertwining as each of their spaces gets entangled, leading to a climactic Black Saturday. The "union" (or survival - depending on how you see it) happens on Easter Sunday when resurrection comes to form, thereby creating even wider spaces.
- While writing his new book, an author tries to find his voice while hearing others as a result. Fact or fiction?
- A grouchy middle-aged woman, joined by her nephew and niece, is to visit an old friend with whom she has to settle debt with, but was brought to an unfamiliar place by a driver who needs to settle a debt of his own.
- Echoing the atmosphere of paranoia for migrant workers living in a different country, "No Flowers in the Afternoon" visualizes their everyday fear of events that beset them. A man who walks home from a day of tiring office work in Köln seems to be followed by something supernatural. But what is it?
- Avoiding cliches (and rewriting scenes from his novel for him not to see another doppelganger like in chapter one), the author battles his creative demons in his desire to surprise his readers.
- Originally presented as a 2-channel video installation for a group exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, this film is a protest piece where five anonymous people represent the Filipino nation, spanning five government regimes (from the dictatorial regime of President Ferdinand Marcos to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo), and their experiences (echoing problems of rampant corruption, extreme poverty, social injustice among others). The numbness and, ironically, the voices of the suffering silent majority are all summed up into this quiet video as the current state of the Filipino nation.
- A short portrait film on meeting Ms. Anita Duldulao, one of the only handful living harp players of her generation in Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Filipino filmmaker Elvert Bañares was resource person of a video documentation workshop and one of its goals was to document the transfer of an old harp to Ms. Duldulao and have her play music with it. The brief encounter was turned into a portraiture film from an observer's point of view, creating a lasting memory in what could be a musician's rare encounter with a harp.
- Amidst a tranquil life, a young man finds himself in a dilemma, dealing with a mysterious intruder who seems to come from beneath. He must find out what's with all the chasing. The question of who is running away from persists.
- Elhanan, a slave of the Dumalángto kingdom, is among those who can see in a land where everyone is blind. Seeing the spread of darkness, famine and injustice, he awaits the right moment to challenge the Oone-eyed King and his dominion.
- Film poetry about man and society. How man tries to be part of society. How society pushes man. How man rebels against society. How society imprisons man. How man is pushed to the limit. How society eats man.
- A diptych 16mm film. The first part is "Raw" and the second part, "Holes". In many ways Gemini is a recipe to be served as a whole but eaten separately. Way back in 1996, the filmmaker had an experimental trilogy exploring and damaging the physical state of 16mm film strips which he found at the garbage bins of the editing rooms in a production agency. This resulted to interesting visuals. Raw is a visual study of weird shapes, crooked lines and other rugged elements. Strips of 16mm film were soaked in soy sauce, vinegar, gin and alcohol and scratched like it was an etching board. Lines and figures were added using pencil, pen and ink while dead insects provide spice to the recipe. Meanwhile Holes is as visually chaotic. It contains holes on 16mm film. Its one visual study that cannot be played using a film projector that the filmmaker had to shoot it in video while it plays in a Moviola - frame by frame - to see the effects of the punched holes. Sand were sprinkled to add texture, like a spice in a dish for the hungry imagination.
- Abstract: Stop. Motion. Nothing is quite universal than the persistence of daily struggle, dealing with truthful images and new media changing the world. There are no exceptions: the transit towards social justice is slow-moving, if not stagnant; the quandary over silence and clamor; the nuances of recurrences vs. disappearances; and the effects of isolation vs. shared suffering. "Come Play With Me" explores the paradox and ironies that surround the memory loss of Filipinos and the blind faith that goes with it refusing stimulating discussions. The film hopes to become an occasion for both pause, movement and action. The official televised declaration of martial law by then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972 is juxtaposed with images subtly criticizing: the effects of it and how power was used to prey on the Filipino people; the violence that went with the abuses and how people of today forget of this part of Philippine history; how the treachery to the Filipino people seemed like a game to those in power and how they have manipulated events to amass wealth from the taxes paid by its citizens; and how all of this play in today's society - that everything becomes a cycle wherein justice takes a backseat in all the chaos of politics, money, greed and power. The pressing question now should be, when will the Filipinos ever learn; when will this be game over?
- Welcome to an age when the triumphant brevity of women and the significance of their voices go through widely chaotic paths of double standards. A microfilm inspired by the creation of the poster designs for Kuris Theater Festival with the theme "Women on Women". Kúris means "stroke". By stroke, in the Hiligaynon language, we mean "stroke of a pen" or "stroke of art".
- Sometime in an unnamed future, three trapped souls try to make meaning of their fates inside a prison in Kartaxim.
- Sights and sounds of one evening in Tuguegarao City while awaiting an impending storm. This is the second in a series called "mobile-sintas" (smarthone films) by filmmaker Elvert Bañares.