This film shows the pulse of Manila, even during COVID-19. It’s been more than a year now since lockdowns began to affect the entire world. This is a film that documents Manila, the capital of the Phillipines, during its first lockdown through a timelapse. I wasn’t sure at the time what I would be doing with the footage, but I wanted to capture what I had never seen—the densest city in the world, emptied of its cars and pedestrians. I shot in timelapse to find the little pulse that was left of the city, as if I were extracting and amplifying a feeble breath of life in an environment of stillness and death. Lockdown or [Metempsychosis] (the title of the soundtrack), attempts to capture what I felt, and perhaps what many of you felt, during the shutdown of our borders. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 15 March, 2021