Danny Red
Art department
Movies4
Movie9.0HistoryScience FictionA historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time.
Memories of Old Manila
1993 · 1 votes
Movie1.0DramaSet in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
Ilusyon
2005 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Hukbalahaps in the forests are suddenly terrorized by an "aswang" who seems to be killing them one by one.
MovieScience FictionActionIn Cesar Hernando's noirish short, the uprising and UFOs are merged in a strange commentary on government control.