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The feature-length motion picture Waves, directed by Don Frasco, was shot
in the Philippines and stars East Asia’s sensation Baron Geisler along with
American actress Ilona Struzik. The film is such a beautiful piece of artistic
poetry that it flows smoothly and refreshingly like the water that surrounds
those exotic islands. It tells us the story of two lovers reunited, and the
schism that time and distance has put through their relationship. A
relationship that was not so simple as we imagined at first.
It’s truly a gorgeous film in which the mood
the photography and editing created has the ability to take the audience by the
virtual hand and pull them into the screen to join the cast. There’s always
something special about films like that. They are rare and you have to watch
them again and again, not because you missed some dialogue or didn’t understand
the arc of one of the characters, but because you want to be in that non-linear
space again – it makes you want to feel once more what you felt the first time
you experienced the film, but every time you watch it, it feels different. It’s
all totally unexplainable, like sharing your own good memories with those of
the two lovers in the screen. And so, you go again.
Back to Earth now. The movie was great and
the editing by Adrian Morales Ramos was spectacularly subtle and powerful,
probably the main culprit of taking you in that rollercoaster of emotion that
is the film. Adrian’s work moved the story forward in a way that was
reminiscent of Terrence Malick’s films – the jump cuts never really felt like
they jumped at all as they gracefully set the tone and pacing of the scene and
the characters mood inside the story. The non-linear editing method was
extremely effective and it even had some music video overtones.
Go see it – you’ll love it. If you missed it
on theatres, it’s on Vimeo on Demand, so you won’t have to travel far.
You can see the filmmakers’ other work online
too, and there has been a lot of it. Before Waves,
both Don Frasco and Adrian Morales worked on the award winning film At Last, which has been showcased in way
over a dozen festivals worldwide. Besides numerous feature film projects,
Adrian also edited the music video Unpredictable
by Celeste Buckingham, which is on Youtube as well as the
great webseries show Behind the Blinds,
which is becoming more popular every minute. It’s one of our favorites and we
get a lot of very big laughs from the two Eastern European Mob guys who decide
to make their own movie so they can launder their ill-gotten money. Catch it –
you’ll love it.
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