Mistula
Philippines,
1987, 15 min
Shown in 1988
CREDITS
- dir
-
Raymond Red
-
COMMENTS
Shown in the Raymond Red program. Raymond Red in person.
Raymond Red, a 23-year-old Filipino, works in Super-8 and achieves a level of technical sophistication that you would not have believed possible. The Enemy is something like an autobiography transmuted into elegiac science fiction. The Yawn is a vignette about sleep, dreams and insomnia that would make Beckett proud. Kind is a naturalistic drama about a student, a sick man and a rented room, with disturbing and seemingly boundless undertones. There is something rare and wonderful about Raymond Red's movies all the more piercing because it is so unexpected. The sheer beauty of these films moves me to tears.
—Tony Rayns, Edinburgh Film Festival
Seeming is Red's first 16mm work about a young violinist who is rejected buy his father and seeks his audience in the natural world. Sketches, a film in three parts, looks at different aspects of the filmmaker's experience Filipino life.
FACTOID #134
The 1986 San Francisco International’s Discovering Mike Leigh was the director’s first retrospective in the U.S. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Festival Artistic Director Peter Scarlet compared the then-unknown Leigh to Yasujiro Ozu before his work had achieved international recognition; while the latter director had been considered ’too Japanese’ for global audiences, Leigh was considered ’too British.’
