Manila Scream Expanded

Manila Scream Expanded combines three recent short films by Philippine underground filmmaker Roxlee, Manila Scream, Yours Trolley, and Slicing Art. The film and its maker and protagonist take us on an idiosyncratic journey through the streets of Manila. It starts with a man painting a picture of a screaming figure based on Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting “The Scream”. He then makes a screaming doll, which is subsequently found by a screaming man and woman roaming around the heavy traffic streets of the capitol city of the Philippines. The doll is discarded again and found by a group of children living near a bridge along the railroad tracks where trolleys – Yours Trolley – are the primary means of transportation. The man painting the scream rides the trolley while playing the harmonica, soon he is singing while Slicing Art. Manila Scream to Yours Trolley to Slicing Art. (Berlinale)