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       Bakunawa Cinema of the Young, is a film camp and series of film workshops for young filmmakers that culminates the youth in film festivals, which gives a lot of opportunities for those people who wants to discover their talents when it comes to filmmaking. Honestly, I am one of those people who are not aware that there are tons of films and filmmakers existing in different countries most especially in the Philippines – short films, indie films, and a lot more genres that are underrated, but because of our subject I got to discover amazing short films and talented filmmakers that I never knew existed.      Let me start with the first film that I’ve watched which is See You Next Century, I love how this film gets me when I’ve read the title and how dramatic it seems for me. At first, I was kind of confused because I am not used to seeing films that uses a bunch of pictures to conceptualize the idea of its story and how simple they’ve come up with ...

     In this short film by Nicole Midori Woodford, where a young girl which is a   resident   of a high-rise apartment in Singapore vacate the premises for the last time before its demolishment and questioned its demise. And according to a dictionary, Tenebrae is a Latin word for “shadows” or “darkness” it could also be translated to a more depth meaning which is “night” or “death”.        Upon watching the film, I love how the cinematography works, how the main character illuminates from the background to give emphasis to her role and the color used in the whole film which I think represents for a deep sorrow of the lost apartment that somehow gives a sentimental feeling in her life and slowly seeing it deconstructed in her sight. We can feel it through the camera set ups how dramatic it may seem. Lighting, effects, camera positioning can really make your film more dramatic so I owe this to the director that   gave a great job when it c...

       Love is a very complicated thing to describe and in this film by Hasoka Andagama, shows how Love is explored and showed in different aspects, types, levels, as well as experiences when it comes to it, and as we all know love is a thrilling thing to be felt, but it showcase how love is not just happy moments, it gives us   a lot of fear, decision-making, hardships, and sacrifices, not just romance and happiness.       I love how the director think of a great transition where frame by frame looks connected to each other. And how it looks complicated yet, you still understood the scenarios being presented by the director. I also noticed how simple the frames where taken and how natural lighting gives a much more realistic scenarios in the film.        Moving on to the storyline, where they emphasizes the statement   that we laughed out of fear, and how we cry out of happiness. It’s intricate how they express their feel...

        In this short film by James Lee, where it is a homage to  Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), that involves a time travelling machine to visit a woman novelist by a scientist from the future that claims to be his husband, where it tells the simple bond of the two character which somehow showcase love from a different timeline.        As for the cinematography of the film, I can say that out of the films I’ve watched, he is the only one who uses a grayscale pictures but didn’t fail to deliver the meaning of the story or what he was trying to portray. To the lighting of the black and white picture that emphasizes the character as well as the emotions the character are trying to deliver like being sad, worried, and happy is being showed through the expression of their faces.      I love how he creatively used pictures to tell and   conceptualize his whole story. Also, those meaningful lines used in the story gives an impa...

        In this short film by Paolo Enrino Pascual, where it shows a story of a mother abused by her husband – under threat that her child will be taken away from her, what shocking in the story is the disappearance of his husband and then having meat in their table. At first, we can see how abusive his husband with the bruises that the woman has which leads to another scene where the couple fights because of the action of the guy and how he wanted to bring his son to Manila.       In the last part, the guy got lost and his sister is finding her, then the woman served the dish to them that made me realize that maybe she killed his husband and used his pieces of body to make that dish she served.   What I’ve realized is that people can do anything and can think clearly when they are mad and for the sake of getting what they want even if it leads to killing someone.

     In this film by James Fajardo which is about those fishermen with their family who struggles in life – that’s facing an impending demolition. I had to admit, it leaves a question in my head about what does the “regla” relates to the story. But as what I pictured maybe it represents something, how it symbolizes blood as the hardship of being part of fishermen community which is a dangerous and cheap work to do but still continues to do it despite the struggle they experienced.        Additionally, I would like to share things that I’ve noticed while watching the film, on how it shows that unusual things leads to fear, and judgements. But there are still friends who supports us in times of the chaos running in our heads.