O Amor Natural
"When O Amor Natural of Carlos Drummond de Andrade appeared in the wonderful Dutch translation by August Willemsen, I started to dream about a film based on the poems in the book. Thanks to the poems...
The Underground Orchestra
The film is a musical journey through a world at war. A diverse group of exiled bohemians (an Argentine pianist, Romanian father and son violinists, a Venezuelan harpist, singers from Mali and...
Perfumed Nightmare
Kidlat TAHIMIK, a bus driver in a small town, dreams of going to the United States to become an astronaut. En route to America he stops in Paris where he becomes disenchanted with Western...
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Every piece of TAHIMIK's works can be regarded as a letter. It means that in each film one can distinguish the writer, the letter (film) itself and the destination. That’s the secret why his films...
Why Is Yellow Middle of the Rainbow?
Since 1981, Tahimik had kept on filming home movies, which were screened at YIDFF in 1989, 1991 and 1993 separately. In 1994, he continually expanded and reedited these three films, followed by the...
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Filipinos and Japanese came from the same origin 300 years ago and the proof is many tribes in the Philippines still wear Fundochi, the costume for Sumo wrestlers. This is just for laughs, but the...