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IT’S RAINING FROGS OUTSIDE

Maria Estela Paiso
Philippines, 2021
14 min

The end of the world is about to end and frogs are raining down from the sky. Maya is back in her childhood home but it no longer feels like home. Overwhelmed by loneliness, isolation and despair, she slips into a fever dream that feels like a horror film screened on the walls of the mind.

The director doesn’t shy away from using a wide variety of material in this collage that moves through all the dark corners of the being: VHS footage, animations, old photographs, 3D images where the nightmare meets virtual reality. The world is about to end and frogs are raining down from the sky. Maya, the director’s alter ego, is caught in the middle of a pandemic, the parental home feels like a kind of prison and life generally looks like a dystopia. A faceless body, a wax body that will leak onto the floor alongside with the dark thoughts, Maya’s persona sits in the murky zone of uncertainty. (Andreea Chiper, BIEFF 2022)

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30th of September, 20:00, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Maria Estela Paiso

Maria Estela Paiso has worked in post-production since 2016 and has since edited several features and shorts. After numerous visual experiments and hip hop music videos, she forayed into directing in 2021 with her short film Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol (It’s Raining Frogs Outside). She spends her free time trying to get a 100 at karaoke.

  • Technical sheet
  • PERFORMER / MUSIC: Alyana Cabral
  • SCREENWRITER / EDITOR: Maria Estela Paiso
  • PRODUCER: Gale Osorio
  • CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Keith Deligero
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / COLOURIST: Eric Bico
  • VFX: Vladimer Castañeto
  • ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Shaine Robles
  • PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Kevin Paguntalan
  • ONLINE ARTISTS: Tricia Bernasor, Shaine Robles
  • FOLEY ENGINEER: Yügen Bei Bei
  • SOUND DESIGNER: Lawrence S. Ang
  • POSTER DESIGN: Donsuki
  • INSPIRED BY: Furniture by Electromilk
  • TRANSLATION: Maria Estela Paiso, Sylvia M. Reyes
  • ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Jurex Suson, Jericho Aguado, Lyndon Victorio Osorio
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Eduardo Lejano Jr., Manet Dayrit
  • DEVELOPED UNDER: Archipelago Lab
  • PRODUCTION: MalasMalas

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