Hot on the heels of an award-winning festival run for his last film Birdshot, Filipino director Mikhail Red is already hard at work on his third feature, Neomanila. Set in the deadly world of the drug war raging through contemporary Manila, the film follows Toto, a teenage orphan, as he is recruited into a notorious death squad. The gang's matriarch, Irma, becomes a surrogate mother figure to the boy, but when their next target is revealed to be a familiar face, loyalties will be put to the test. Fast becoming one of the most exciting young voices in Filipino cinema, Red's work, including his 2013 debut Rekorder, fuses genre elements with bold social commentary, and Neomanila looks to be continuing that trend. Check out the...
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- 9/16/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The title alone will have you stop whatever you're doing. The Philippines, for all its reputation for criminality and mayhem, has never been a haven for a particular sort of criminal, the serial killer. This specific fact seems to be the core of Mikhail Red's next feature, which as its title seems to imply, has a serial killer from the United States wreaking havoc in the archipelago's largest city.Mikhail, the son of Raymond Red who is a leading voice in the country's alternative filmmaking scene, started by directing short films which garnered various awards in local and international film festivals. His first feature film, Rekorder (2013), is about a movie pirate who suddenly finds himself as the center of the police's attention when he inadvertently...
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- 2/27/2015
- Screen Anarchy
At just 21 years of age Filipino filmmaker Mikhail Red has written and directed his first feature length film. Mikhail started his career early under the guidance of his father Raymond Red, a key figure in Filipino independent cinema and the recipient of the Palme d'Or in 2000 for his short film Anino. Like his father, the young director leans towards the experimental and as a result his debut, Rekorder has been shot on a number of different formats which retain their original aspect ratios. The film tells the story of Maven, a movie pirate with an obsession for filming the world through his outdated video camera. It's an interesting film dealing with a number of issues including piracy, social media and an increasingly disconnected society but...
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- 11/12/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Mikhail Red's Rekorder is the story of Maven (Ronnie Quizon), a tragic drifter who with his old camcorder records movies currently showing in theaters to sell the footage to pirates. The parting image shows Ronnie in the movie theater without his camcorder in hand. For the first time, he isn't asleep while the movie is playing. He is just there, sitting alone and motionless, completely engrossed by the movie he is watching. As it turns out, the movie is not the commercial features he has been recording throughout the years for the enterprising pirates, but security camera footage of a robbery that culminates in violence. The footage plays a key role in the narrative, explaining how Maven turned into the unsettled character that he is...
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- 8/1/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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