Filmography

Isaak

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1994, 10 minutes, 35 mm, Fiction
Script/Director: Nick Deocampo
Production Company: Metro Manila Film Fest
Cinematographer: Yam Laranas
Editor: Ricky Orellana
Sound: Chris Isaak and Tony Mabesa

Based on a painting by Rebrandt, "The Sacrifice of Isaak," the film is a meditation on the complex relation between fathers and sons. It is a personal reflection on patriarchy, that system of social relations which breeds violence, domination and death. Metamorphic and magical, the film is a strange mixture of reality and fantasy, history and imagination, creating a modern-day parable which seeks to bestow on every human being the well deserved dignity and respect we all deserve to have.

"The Bible, Freud, the Greeks, the male psyche and Philippine history collude in Nick Deocampo's Isaak, an unnerving, revealing confessional on the rule of male archetypes and the process of role and resumption from and between father and son. One kills and the other dies, not always in general order, and not necessarily through death of the body. Taboos are but transitional stages between long, tedious and inevitably catastrophic periods of love and hate."

- Manny Espinola, Video Philippines

"A young man's quest to exorcise the combined spell of colonialism and patriarchy imposed on him. This extraordinary rich film interrogates desire of the colonized as a contradictory site where the oedipal and the anti-oedipal converge, and how a "third" sexuality is both a given and a quest "

- Yau Ching, Girls Make Videos (USA)