🔴 OUT OF BODY: Cinemalaya Story with Director Enrico Po
OUT OF BODY BY ENRICO PO
SHORT FEATURE COMPETITION (14:53 MINUTES) Suspense
A young model is coerced into a macabre commercial shoot.
SYNOPSIS: Elle, a young model new to the industry, arrives to the set of her first commercial job to discover that the initial idea was scrapped. A mysterious new concept has been developed, but the crew and director keep forgetting to let her know what it is. However, after an afternoon of tight costume fittings, rough prop work, and meetings with creepy producers, Elle begins to suspect something else might be afoot.
DIRECTORS’ NOTES:
Growing up,I spent a lot of time on commercial sets. Every now and then, you’d see that same face, mostly from the women, whether it be over going overtime, costume choices, weird direction, etc.
Everytime, they’d just have to get over it and go to work. What struck me most is that no one really noticed, sometimes even the women themselves.
Later in life when I was in school, I was working on a project that had some aesthetic elements of BDSM. A young actress came in to meet about the project, unaware of the BDSM elements of the project.
When I showed her some reference images, her face dropped. I asked her if she was ok, and she choked out “Uhm…yeah…sure…” It was clear she had been blindsided, and after our meeting I sent a long email clearing things up. It was my fault as I had not properly briefed the producer.
Thankfully we were able to clear things up, came to some compromises and both had a great time working on the project, which turned out well. But I will never forget how easy it was to not notice and simply let things be.
FILMMAKER PROFILE:
ENRICO PO is a young Filipino filmmaker based in Manila. A film buff since childhood, he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Film & TV. Since returning to the Philippines, he has worked on various documentary, narrative, and commercial projects.
MAJOR CREDITS: CAST: Kelley Day, Nelsito Gomez, Joel Saracho, Dylan Talon, Leo Rialp, Tarek El Tayech PRODUCTION STAFF: DIRECTOR/ SCREENWRITER/ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – Enrico Po; DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Tey Clamor; MUSIC SCORER – Kristofer Crouch; EDITOR – Benjamin Tolentino; SOUND DESIGNER – Mikko Quizon; PRODUCTION DESIGNER – Katrish Aristoki; PRODUCER – Alemberg Ang
