Being open entails a lot of meanings. It can be a doorway, a passage, or it may mean transparent. Cinema, as we know, stems from ordinary stories of daily lives in different faces. These representations may be formulaic or experimental, streamlined or self-expressed. And we must look at films with
Tag: Alvin Yapan
Cinemalaya 2015 screens its best films in retrospect
For the past eleven years, as a cinephile in the Philippines, going to Cinemalaya is like going to Pilgrimage. You get to watch films that rarely make it to the chopping block of mainstream media; films that enrich the mind (in my perspective, at least), inform the public of the existential
An Kubo sa Kawayanan
The new film from Alvin Yapan is introduced as a “small film with big ambitions.” Twice I have heard of this:the first time from his actress Agot Asidro presenting his 2013 film Mga Anino ng Kahapon; and again from him last night at the Gala Screening of his WPFF entry An
Trailer for new Alvin Yapan film ‘An Kubo sa Kawayanan’ is here!
The new Alvin Yapan film, An Kubo sa Kawayanan, is an official selection in the Filipino New Cinema section of the upcoming World Premieres Film Festival. Yapan’s previous film—an Agot Isidro-starrer that brazenly touches on schizophrenia and post-Macoy anxieties (Mga Anino ng Kahapon, ’13)—is far too long ago (at least it feels so), and a new story from
