the haunted

Official Entry, Competition Category, Corta International Short Film Festival 2006 (Portugal)


"Ben and Ella would rather go out and party than stay at home to look after their autistic sister. But avoiding this boring chore isn't the only reason why they want to get out of the house..."





courtesy of confessional movies

remembering starcrossed

this short film would probably already familiar for some. since i have already posted it before.

basically, the reason i have posted it again is because of what i have realized last night.

me and odette decided to meet up in gateway and got ourselves fraps with the same variant again---java chip. "nothing changed!"

as usual, we updated ourselves with the current happenings in our life, which was obviously not that many. since she already joined me in my quest to the world of the un(der)employed. she just resigned from work as a HR personnel in an international money remittance company. for reasons, we again obviously share.

while we were talking, we tumbled upon jopao, another friend from baguio. we greeted and invited him to sit with us. in which, he enthusiastically accepted. probably, like us, he was looking for a sensible chat after along boring day at work(the last two words are not related to me and odette). we talked about ourselves, careers, some friends in the highlands, love lives and films. in which the latter really caught our interest.

then i remembered jopao creating a short film entitled, metro, when we were undergraduate, as part of the their broadcasting curriculum. but since i am a social science graduate, we don't mount such projects. we just keep our nose stuck on piles of readings after more readings, essays and more essays. thus, this was the thing that i would always envy them. if only i have the chance and the proper training, i will do one, as i always tell myself.

then i thought, what really gave me the interest and the idea of doing short films? i remember when i was a kid, i wanted to be an architect. i even remember a fellow classmate whom i made a promise with that by the time we grew up, we will become architects. but it seemed like not all things in life will come the way you wanted it to be. the last time, i checked, i think he is already a pharmacist. while me, i am unemployed (am i rubbing it to much now? sorry i can't help it). then after looking for pages after pages in my about to deteriorate memory, i found it! it was actually this film that made me fall in love with films.

basically, i love the story of this one because it tackled something that is not being tackled by many. in short, a very sensitive issue that discussed double twists of two unlikely events. some called it taboo. some would say its immoral. they even called them freaks and abomination. but after watching the film, i realized, it was more of a simple story of life of two individuals probably in a wrong reality. thus, they were never accepted and the film was entitled starcrossed.

it had been almost 4 years now, since i last saw this movie. but it was just now that i 've realized, that when most people already moved on and have gone back to their lives after seeing this or probably another movie, i am still here stuck and living inside the same screen of this story.

probably, this was the main reason why most of the time i tend to write about very sensitive topics. a way of giving the (being) marginalized voice to tell people that such things happen and we don't have any right to pass judgement to them. probably, like any other social change it would take time before one issue will be accepted. but for now, i am decided, that i'll continue reiterating these topics until change is properly served in its proper place. no matter how long it would take.

pasada

"ano nga ba ang pag ibig?" ---hanna espia

solitude

in the midst of solitude lies depression and fantasy.

geno by request.

i still have another shortfilm for your request. but i haven't downloaded it yet.
this is just an experimental film i bumped around. enjoy!

getting to know you

a story of a lesbian who never gets tired of knowing various people until she meets the right one.

for a lesbian friend: barbara---may you finally get to know her. enjoy!

dare

by request: geno
up to what extent are you willing to take a dare?

behind these walls

carpool

story of love, friendship and moving on. Entangled in the web of complications

tale of two balls

how balls and people are alike when falling in love

promtroversy

A typical promenade story of two girls

starcrossed

when everything that two lovers have and value are in no chance be accepted by their society: there is no other way but to find another world, where they could be fully accepted.

trivia: the character of connor was played by Marshall Allman: who also played LJ Burrows in Prisonbreak.