keenly aware of the power of good quality film, had invested in a 16mm Bolex camera. “They were simple cameras,” he recalls. “You had to wind up the camera, and you only got 16 seconds in a ...

Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghetti western." The decade-long path of the film ...