How to die young in manila
How to die young in manila
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How to Die Young in Manila
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An introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he’d sleep over at his friends’. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a dating app. The street is filled with dead hustlers, but nobody seems to notice these strange occurrences.
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Ah yes, Saint Sebastian, the most homoerotic of the saints. Arousing many young gay men since the 1400s. (It’s true! Look it up.)
I think the metaphor doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. There’s space here for the Elijah Canlas character to express a little more feeling regarding all the weird things he encounters on this nighttime walk, but the film chooses not to go there. So I didn’t quite feel the sense of danger or fear that I think the short wanted to create.
That said, it’s an undeniably creative portrayal of the often seedy network of people that some young, underprivileged members of the LGBTQ+ community have to wade through just to experience intimacy from strangers. But the most disturbing aspect of the film isn’t necessarily the dead bodies lying in the streets; it’s how the rest of Manila carries on…
How to Die Young in Manila seemingly takes CaiReel from their middle-class, privileged lives, brings them into the dirty, deadly, and oftentimes ostracized and overlooked queer underworld of Manila, and leaves them there to fend for themselves.
[Singapore International Film Festival 2020]
Basta sure ako hindi ganito itsura ng Binondo kapag gabi. Mas madilim. Mas madumi. Mas nakakatakot.
I think there is an interesting metaphor wrapped in all of this. Just I don’t quite understand it.
weird grindr meetup
Academy of Death Racers Film Festival
A little clueless on the metaphor although the story is interesting. It’s another case of a short needing to be longer. I felt as if the story was going somewhere really compelling but then it ended.
How to Die Young in Manila is now screening at the 1st Academy of Death Racers Film Festival until the 30th of January 2022. Get your virtual passes now by visiting our website.
Premiering at Busan International Film Festival and receiving nominations in Glasgow and Singapore, this live action short frames coming-of-age queer desire within the modern Filipino political landscape. Juxtaposing this ethereal yearning with the all too real and dangerous consequences in Duterte’s Manila, Petersen Vargas appropriates Renaissance imagery and Saint Sebastian’s martyrdom to capture the paradoxical experience. How to Die Young in Manila is nominated Best LGBTQ+ Film (short or feature) at the AODR Film Festival.
oo na b*b* na nga ako sorry na ganito lang ako
Queer identity and politics take place in ‘How to Die Young in Manila’
Running from Oct. 21 to 30, the Busan International Film Festival has picked up a couple of Filipino short films in their competition roster. And one of these is “How to Die Young in Manila,” which features our top-tier ship Elijah Canlas and Kokoy de Santos in a pensive journey of identity and loss in the densest capital. Actors Miguel Almendras (“Hello, Stranger”) and Kych Minemoto (“Kalel, 15”) as well as wushu athlete Shu Calleja complete the cast.
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Directed by Petersen Vargas, produced by Alembarg Ang, and written by Vargas, Jade Castro and Kaj Palanca, “How to Die Young in Manila” sounds like an easy addition to our Letterboxd watchlists. A promising collaboration is what we need in these [robotic voice] unprecedented times, and we won’t dare miss it.
It’s premiering in Busan soon and we’re hella proud, but we honestly want to squeeze ourselves into the imaginary line and score a ticket ourselves. Now that we’re still in the waiting game, we hit up one of the writers, Kaj Palanca, to get some exclusive details.
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Can you clue us in on the story of “How to Die Young in Manila?”
“How to Die Young in Manila” was made as a short pitch teaser to Petersen’s next full-length feature, entitled “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking.” It’s about a young boy who braves the streets of nighttime Manila to meet an anonymous hookup. Thinking one of them is a hookup, he trails a pack of young hustlers who then draw him into their strange world of death and desire.
Are we going to have an online premiere for PH viewers soon?
No announced plans yet for a Philippine premiere as far as I know. Maybe after this pandemic!
Why should we watch “How to Die Young in Manila?”
Other than that it’s a crucial development in Petersen’s queer cinema—the film also questions and explores the possibility of an urban life, of human connection in the city, for those not protected by privilege from the cruel policies of this government, which kill young men everywhere. It’s a film that imagines and situates queer desire within a city determined and shaped by politics.
Letterboxd — Your life in film
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How to Die Young in Manila
Synopsis
An introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he’d sleep over at his friends’. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a dating app. The street is filled with dead hustlers, but nobody seems to notice these strange occurrences.
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Ah yes, Saint Sebastian, the most homoerotic of the saints. Arousing many young gay men since the 1400s. (It’s true! Look it up.)
I think the metaphor doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. There’s space here for the Elijah Canlas character to express a little more feeling regarding all the weird things he encounters on this nighttime walk, but the film chooses not to go there. So I didn’t quite feel the sense of danger or fear that I think the short wanted to create.
That said, it’s an undeniably creative portrayal of the often seedy network of people that some young, underprivileged members of the LGBTQ+ community have to wade through just to experience intimacy from strangers. But the most disturbing aspect of the film isn’t necessarily the dead bodies lying in the streets; it’s how the rest of Manila carries on…
How to Die Young in Manila seemingly takes CaiReel from their middle-class, privileged lives, brings them into the dirty, deadly, and oftentimes ostracized and overlooked queer underworld of Manila, and leaves them there to fend for themselves.
[Singapore International Film Festival 2020]
Basta sure ako hindi ganito itsura ng Binondo kapag gabi. Mas madilim. Mas madumi. Mas nakakatakot.
I think there is an interesting metaphor wrapped in all of this. Just I don’t quite understand it.
weird grindr meetup
Academy of Death Racers Film Festival
A little clueless on the metaphor although the story is interesting. It’s another case of a short needing to be longer. I felt as if the story was going somewhere really compelling but then it ended.
How to Die Young in Manila is now screening at the 1st Academy of Death Racers Film Festival until the 30th of January 2022. Get your virtual passes now by visiting our website.
Premiering at Busan International Film Festival and receiving nominations in Glasgow and Singapore, this live action short frames coming-of-age queer desire within the modern Filipino political landscape. Juxtaposing this ethereal yearning with the all too real and dangerous consequences in Duterte’s Manila, Petersen Vargas appropriates Renaissance imagery and Saint Sebastian’s martyrdom to capture the paradoxical experience. How to Die Young in Manila is nominated Best LGBTQ+ Film (short or feature) at the AODR Film Festival.
oo na b*b* na nga ako sorry na ganito lang ako
Letterboxd — Your life in film
Where to watch
How to Die Young in Manila
Synopsis
An introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he’d sleep over at his friends’. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a dating app. The street is filled with dead hustlers, but nobody seems to notice these strange occurrences.
Director
Producers
Writers
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12 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this film
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Ah yes, Saint Sebastian, the most homoerotic of the saints. Arousing many young gay men since the 1400s. (It’s true! Look it up.)
I think the metaphor doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. There’s space here for the Elijah Canlas character to express a little more feeling regarding all the weird things he encounters on this nighttime walk, but the film chooses not to go there. So I didn’t quite feel the sense of danger or fear that I think the short wanted to create.
That said, it’s an undeniably creative portrayal of the often seedy network of people that some young, underprivileged members of the LGBTQ+ community have to wade through just to experience intimacy from strangers. But the most disturbing aspect of the film isn’t necessarily the dead bodies lying in the streets; it’s how the rest of Manila carries on…
How to Die Young in Manila seemingly takes CaiReel from their middle-class, privileged lives, brings them into the dirty, deadly, and oftentimes ostracized and overlooked queer underworld of Manila, and leaves them there to fend for themselves.
[Singapore International Film Festival 2020]
Basta sure ako hindi ganito itsura ng Binondo kapag gabi. Mas madilim. Mas madumi. Mas nakakatakot.
I think there is an interesting metaphor wrapped in all of this. Just I don’t quite understand it.
weird grindr meetup
Academy of Death Racers Film Festival
A little clueless on the metaphor although the story is interesting. It’s another case of a short needing to be longer. I felt as if the story was going somewhere really compelling but then it ended.
How to Die Young in Manila is now screening at the 1st Academy of Death Racers Film Festival until the 30th of January 2022. Get your virtual passes now by visiting our website.
Premiering at Busan International Film Festival and receiving nominations in Glasgow and Singapore, this live action short frames coming-of-age queer desire within the modern Filipino political landscape. Juxtaposing this ethereal yearning with the all too real and dangerous consequences in Duterte’s Manila, Petersen Vargas appropriates Renaissance imagery and Saint Sebastian’s martyrdom to capture the paradoxical experience. How to Die Young in Manila is nominated Best LGBTQ+ Film (short or feature) at the AODR Film Festival.
oo na b*b* na nga ako sorry na ganito lang ako