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"Perfumed Nightmare"
1983
Directed by Kidlat Tahimik

An enchanting, poignant, and totally original fable by young Philippine filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, about his awakening to and reaction against American cultural colonialism. Born in 1942 during the Occupation, Tahimik spent the "next 33 typhoon seasons in a cocoon of American dreams." This is his perfumed nightmare: the lotus-land of American technological promise. In his primitive village he worshipped the heroism of the Machine, the sleek beauty of rockets, the efficiency of industrialism. He is the president of his own Werner Von Braun fan club. A bizarre, hallucinatory movie full of dazzling images and outlandish ideas, shot on super 8 for less than $10,000. Winner of the International Critics Award, Berlin Film Festival. Called "one of the year's best films" by J. Hoberman in The Village Voice. English and Tagalog with English subtitles.  91 minutes.