The Criminal is a 1981[1] Philippine experimental adult animated crime short film directed by Nonoy Dadivas and Fruto Corre. Deals with the themes of death anxiety, the film's plot is about a fugitive who cannot escape from himself.[2]
| The Criminal | |
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 Title card | |
| Directed by | Nonoy Dadivas Fruto Corre |
| Distributed by | Media Concepts, Inc. |
Release dates | 1981 (MIFF)
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Running time | 6 minutes |
| Country | Philippines |
| Language | No dialogue |
Plot
editThe Criminal has no dialogue, the titular character, exhausted, takes refuge to the house to get away from the police and goes to the bed to sleep, but he suffers from nightmares of a sheep being chopped in half by the razor twice. He took sleeping pills in the kitchen and goes to sleep again, but he suffers the same nightmare again. The following day, the criminal is walking around in a living room and hatching a plot to escape the country by running away on a highway road, each scenes in a painting indicates life imprisonment, torture, death by electrocution, hanging or guillotine while walking around.
Meanwhile, the police arrives on the house. He goes in the highway road painting to run away from them; in reality, he is caught and taken away by the police.
Release
editThe Criminal was screened at the 1981 Manila International Film Festival and later released for free on YouTube by Daniel Desembrana, who designed the film, through his own channel.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Florentino, Maria Paulina P. (July 20, 2018). "Re-animating Philippine Cinema: For Filipinos, By Filipinos". The Reflective Practitioner. 3: 37–57. ISSN 2467-5830.
- ^ David, Joel (2013). "Forms and Types: Early History of Filipino Animation (v2.0)" (PDF). Amateurish.com.