Real indies don’t need pants.
Accepting his Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Award, filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik marched to the stage wearing a cap and toga, no pants, humming the graduation march from Aida. Then he performed a funny piece about filmmaking and the battle between art and money. Then he took off the toga to reveal an Igorot G-string, and danced around the stage while banging a gong.
Not quite the ass we were hoping to see, but give it to the man. He made the much younger indies look staid and conventional.
Rustom Padilla appeared in drag to present the award for Best Actor. He was gorgeous. I have pictures, I’ll upload them later. Our one complaint was that he was wearing tall hair, a dramatic pink top, and pants. Why stop at the waist? He would’ve killed in an evening gown.
Emilio Garcia won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Selda. Accepting the trophy, he reminisced about how he and his director Paolo Villaluna went to a filmfest in Montreal. They didn’t have much money, so they had a cheap meal at a Chinese restaurant. “Pero kakaibang talong ang kinain natin (But that was an unusual eggplant we ate),” he said, prompting shrieks from the audience.
The winners:
Best Picture: Tirador
Best Director: Brilliante Mendoza for Tirador
Best Actor: (tie) Jason Abalos for Endo and Sid Lucero for Selda
Best Actress: Cherry Pie Picache for Foster Child
Best Screenplay: Jade Castro, Michiko Yamamoto, Raymond Lee for Endo
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October 2nd, 2008 at 08:44
We must see Rustom. And you in a dress.
I remember listening to a film forum between Kidlat Tahimik, Eddie Romero (I think), and Cesar Montano in UP Fine Arts. At the end of the ceremony, Kidlat disappeared for a while… and returned dancing on stage wearing a g-string. My friend, a guy, went out of the forum with the others, kasi daw, “ayaw naming makita yung kidlat nya.”
October 2nd, 2008 at 09:58
Then he performed a funny piece about filmmaking and the battle between art and money.
How come in every other medium, art is supported by money? Been that way since the royals sponsored classical artists, and rich folk like Guggenheim were patrons of such artists as Jackson Pollock and others. Corporations back artists too. Big bucks. But filmmaking? Could it be that it’s not quite art yet?
Or as Camille Paglia wrote in Salon, Art movies, RIP?
October 6th, 2008 at 14:57
I saw a bigger picture of Rustom! And he could pass as a Bb. Pilipinas, if he didn’t go with the pants!
October 6th, 2008 at 19:02
Hwaat?! Kidlat, Rustom, and the JZ all in one event?! URIAN should’ve cashed in thus “URIAN 08, Indie Transves-Light with a Twist” or something to that effect.