Green Rocking Chair
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Profile
- Movie: Green Rocking Chair
- Director: Roxlee
- Writer: Roxlee
- Producer: Roxlee
- Cinematographer: Albert Banzon, Bulan, Jim Lumbera
- Release Date: 2006
- Runtime: 61 min.
- Language: Filipino
- Country: Philippines
Plot
Roxlee is the protagonist in a fiction film that has the form of a documentary. He undertakes a quest into the use of Baybayin, an old form of writing that was developed before the Spanish colonists set foot in the Philippines in 1521. Does Baybayin still exist as an actively written language? That’s what Roxlee wonders at the start of the quest. But gradually it becomes apparent that the filmmaker is interested in more than just pre-colonial writing. With his eye for the absurd within everyday events, he makes an unusual portrait of his country and of his compatriots.
Cast
- Ramon Bautista - Boni
- Pusong Bughaw - Babaylan
- Carmela Cruz - Oriang
- Ronnie Lazaro - High Priest
- Quebry - Pepe
- Zeroxlee - baby Juan Baybayin
- Roxlee - Juan Baybayin
- Ping Medina - La Pula
Film Festivals
- 2009 (38th) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 21st-February 1st - Spectrum (European Premiere)
