Advertisements Following in the footsteps of Ron Fricke’s Baraka and Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Victor Tagaro’s Yield is an experimental film that shifts away from the typical form of the documentary and presents a visceral and enthralling experience. Yield explores the living conditions…
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Advertisements The festival banners and the red carpet were quiet. Everyone had a very long weekend. I had a long weekend, one of my busiest of the year. Eight films in four days and all while trying to juggle school and work.…
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Advertisements Day three I saw a stellar pair of films that were not easy to manage together. All in all, the Cinematografo Film Festival is shaping up to be a time filled with films that are beautiful, unique and humane stories that…
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Advertisements Day two at Cinematografo was filled with a couple stunning, and remarkably different, documentaries along with a delicate experimental film. Following Signal Rock, the festival has kept churning out intimate looks at Filipino culture and society from many angles. In the…
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Advertisements The Philippines’ official submission for this year’s Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards, Signal Rock, was Cinematografo International Film Festival’s opening piece and, boy, did it set the tone for the whole festival in the best way. Signal Rock depicts a…
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Advertisements The second annual Cinematografo International Film Festival, being held at the Kabuki Theater in San Francisco, is getting underway this week, and there are a number of notable films to keep an eye out for. The CIFF showcases a number of…
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