LIFE

August 12^th the most awaited day and event everybody is ready and stoked to watch shorts A and B. Hearing some people shouting “vote for your favourite film” then someone jokingly whispering the ones that they like. Now the time was right and everyone is getting inside and as we enter the theatre it was like a new place even if it was the same place. It was like a different kind of aura and vibe maybe because everybody was expecting a lot. A lot of whispering and chattering others laughing and waiting for the people they should be with. First shorts (A) film started with “APASOL” by Ryanne Murcia the story is about a couple named “El” and “Mark” they went to this place that has this special tree also where they tie letters containing their wishes. It shows how hard it is to love someone who will be far away from you that you’re so scared of losing him/her and the memories that you have. Showing how they want to stop time chasing the Sun even more and not wanting the Moon to rise. Making every second to be memorable for one another and the scene that “El” shows how scared he was to leave “Mark” behind showing his love to him and that he got mad because he does not want to have a relationship like Mark’s parents. Pain and love mixed together also the thought of giving everything to the one you care about. Then the next one would be “GATILYO NG BARIL” by Glenmark C. Doromal & Eero Yves Francisco the concept of this short film is about politics and mysterious killing of others competition. Hiring someone to kill others just for your own sake just like what happened to NINOY AQUINO’s death it was shown in the last part of the film. Giving me the idea that other people would use the power they have to take a life. Then the third one would be “SANCTISSIMA” by Kenneth Dagatan I was expecting already that this would be a little bit bloody well not little but a lot because of the display and the poster itself. It was worth the watch and by not closing your eyes of the intense things like how blood drips slowly and the creepy “Son of the Devil” character. Showing how to be a real mother even if your own child is a monster you would never kill his/her life. I love the part where she said that “you would understand if you became a true mother” it made a big impact to my life knowing that in the film there are people going to her place just for them to have a so called “Abortion” to kill a life of an innocent child. It is so simple yet meaningful even if they won’t say a word like nothing you would just simply understand it by the actions made. Second to the last in the list of shorts (A) would be “KYEL” by Arvin Belarmino this short film is about a drug addict which is also a drug pusher. In my POV it appears that he was in a dream but the case was that he wasn’t at all maybe it’s just how the film wants the audience to think. But by looking at it closely I can say that what happened to him in the film and the part of him waking up was his hallucination and his part of the mind of wanting to be in peace waiting for himself since he has been calling his name out and screaming knowing that he wants to stop what he has been doing to his own body. Also at the end of the film he died he was shot in the head which was a thrill to all of us making us have that screech of excitement and shock. Now the last one in shorts (A) is “Nenok” by Milo Tolentino this film started with animations of balloons and a cute little kid who sleeps outside a church and talks to the statues he ask money for his coffee and tries to get some bread to this worker who has a crush on this woman that goes to church to pray. It was really heart breaking because the little kid who is a boy somehow feels the presence of his dead mother taking good care of her grave replacing the flower by getting some and asking permission to Mother Mary’s statue. Again the title would be really simple to understand and it’s all because of how the little kid shows his action in the film.

Going to shorts (B) another set of short films and for sure an exciting one. First one would be “LISYUN QNG GEOGRAFIA” by Peterson Vargas a film about friendship and about finding, reminiscing, and not forgetting that one person even if the past was not something you wanted. A film that revolves around friends sharing the most sweetest and cutest kind of time together but then scared of how society judges them thus, ending their relationship in a bad way where one does not want to see the other and keeps on pushing him away. A story that shows how a friend gets hurt but still didn’t expect that in the future everything can change which goes to the part of finding each other and might start everything again from scratch. Next would be “WAWA” by Angelie Mae Macalanda a film of cultural funeral which is by putting the dead bodies in a bamboo like floater and pray as they sail. But it was hard for me to understand fully the part of the kid suddenly falling and then he woke up I’m not quite sure about how my mind understands it but the director itself said it was full of metaphor. It was simple yet mysterious also it caught my attention because my mind worked a lot to get to the point of the film. The third one would be “MATER” by Annemikami Pablo about a mother washing and worshiping the “Sto. Nino” and other saints and a daughter that hates her own mother I think what the film is talking about is that how the mother does not even give time to her own daughter and making her daughter be open to anything like drugs and smoking because she doesn’t have the proper attention and care from a mother. Also I think they’re in a bad situation like they need money and the mother is facing an illness that can’t be healed because it will cost them a lot. Thus ending to the part of the daughter getting crazy and dies because she can’t handle it anymore. Second to the last would be “PUSONG BATO” by Martika Ramirez Escobar the film is based about a popular actress in the year of the 80’s and having this series namely called “Pusong Bato” having Cinta and Gardo as the main characters but their love wasn’t true because it was only acting. But Cinta’s feelings were true and somehow the symbolism of the rock that Cinta found was Gardo in some kind of way not loving her back. Also the part we’re Cinta had an intimate relationship with a rock shows how her needs was not answered by her true love. Also her turning into a stone and this old man who owns her apartment found her like that shows the same cycle of how Gardo acted to Cinta. Finally the last one in shorts (B) is “PAPETIR” by Darwin Novicio I thought this short film is about a comedy kind of thing but it prove me that I was wrong because it’s all about how an entertainer suffers and how he tries to keep this pain inside of him but then only he realizes and his co – worker that he was already out of character. The people in this party taught that it was all part of his act and he meant on doing that but everything they see was not a part of his act but the pain he felt and traumatic kind of event that would be stuck forever in his life specifically in this short film losing his own son.
by: Chi Palisoc