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Gemini
From a Canadian VHS release label
A diptych 16mm film. The first part is "Raw" and the second part, "Holes". In many ways Gemini is a recipe to be served as a whole but eaten separately. Way back in 1996, the filmmaker had an experimental trilogy exploring and damaging the physical state of 16mm film strips which he found at the garbage bins of the editing rooms in a production agency. This resulted to interesting visuals. Raw is a visual study of weird shapes, crooked lines and other rugged elements. Strips of 16mm film were soaked in soy sauce, vinegar, gin and alcohol and scratched like it was an etching board. Lines and figures were added using pencil, pen and ink while dead insects provide spice to the recipe. Meanwhile Holes is as visually chaotic. It contains holes on 16mm film. Its one visual study that cannot be played using a film projector that the filmmaker had to shoot it in video while it plays in a Moviola - frame by frame - to see the effects of the punched holes. Sand were sprinkled to add texture, like a spice in a dish for the hungry imagination.

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Year of release: 2004 (original 16mm from 1996)
TRT: 9 min, 39 sec
Experimental Dyptich
edited, designed and directed by: Elvert Bañares (1996)
editor (2004): Jose Niño Nicolas III
original music: Martin Jamora (1996), Lord Manueve Bala (2004)
Trivia: The dyptich film is dedicated to the filmmaker's sister.
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