Babylon
Runtime : 20.23mins
Country : Philippines
Dir. : Keith Deligero
Schedule : Sun 23, June 2019 (13.00)
Genre : Fiction
World Premiere : QCinema Film Festival 2017
Synopsis
Two young girls from the future, Saab and Dawn, travel through time into a community under armed conflict, with the threat of either military personnel or rebels up in the mountains. In a remote village, the paramilitary murder a family living in the hillside to claim the land that the household owns. A wife and a daughter survives and vows to take revenge.
The town leader is a tyrannical man accused of ordering heinous crimes. But without evidence linking him to the crimes, he continues to live as a free man. Jay aspires to become a Jai Alai player someday, and Irma just became a pilot. On their way to the town leader’s house, they reach a small unknown town in the middle of the forest and get into all sorts of situations as Jay falls for Irma.
Jay’s pet rooster gets killed and served for lunch after losing in a cockfight. He gets beaten up by triplets after stealing biscuits. Heartbroken and without purpose in life, he sings his heart out in front of a karaoke machine from the future.
Meanwhile Dawn & Saab with Irma the pilot who has been part of the resistance all along, help the vengeful widower orchestrates a killing spree. They take justice into their own hands by killing the town leader and his men. The three women flee the scene aboard an ambulance. As they escape, they see Jay at the side of road and they immediately take him inside the ambulance. The women huddle around Jay and Irma starts to glow red. She gets brighter and brighter until it drowns the entire vehicle in neon red.
The ambulance glows a deep fluorescent red as it continues to drive away into the horizon.
Director’s Biography
Keith Deligero is an independent filmmaker from Cebu. He is the director of the critically acclaimed ISAKALAWAGS (2013) and LILY (2016).
Every film scene needs its enfant terrible, and there is no question that in Cebu that role is taken up by Keith Deligero. While the creativity that Cebu is injecting into Filipino cinema is being accomplished collectively by the diverse wealth of Cebuano filmmakers, Deligero is creating work that is independent and uncompromising in the strictest sense of both those terms. Keith emerged onto the film scene with a group of young filmmakers in the mid-2000s, yet Keith’s vision runs counter to most of his contemporaries--creating feature-length works that are composed of illicit images and a harsh pastiche of metal, punk and other sonic disturbances. When he is not making films, Keith Deligero carries a projector around and projects films in basketball courts, basements and on rooftops for the BINISAYA Movement.