An Eidolon Named Night

A filmmaker directs the dreams of a woman, farmer, a kid, a water buffalo and his own dream.

  • Hans Rivera
    Director
  • Hans Rivera
    Writer
  • Racquel De Guzman Morilla
    Producer
  • Jave Michael Morilla
    Key Cast
    "Kid"
  • Faith De Guzman Morilla
    Key Cast
    "Mother"
  • Fantasia
    Key Cast
    "Water Buffalo"
  • Dreizen Morilla Pingol
    Key Cast
    "Farmer"
  • Hans Rivera
    Key Cast
    "Farmer"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 19, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    99 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Philippines
  • Country of Filming:
    Philippines
  • Language:
    Tagalog
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Pelikultura: CALABARZON Film Festival 2021
    Laguna
    Philippines
    October 16, 2021
    Local (Philippines) Premiere
  • CCCL Film Festival
    Bangkok
    Thailand
    February 18, 2022
    Thailand
  • Piling Obrang Vidyo 2022
    Quezon
    Philippines
    March 14, 2022
    Philippines (Local)
    Special Award
  • Lift-Off First time Filmmakers Festival
    Iver
    United Kingdom
    February 16, 2022
    World
  • Cinema Rehiyon 2022
    Manila
    Philippines
    February 28, 2022
    Philippines (Local)
  • FUSE Film Festival 2022
    Karlovac
    Croatia
    June 5, 2022
    Croatia
Director Biography - Hans Rivera

Hans Rivera is a filmmaker from the Philippines. The filmmaker directed The Smell of Earth’s breath (2018), and An Eidolon Named Night (2021) which screened in both local and international festivals. He is a fellow of Cinemalaya’s Intensive Scriptwriting Workshop under Ricky Lee. Together with his peers, he instituted Pothos Collective—a group comprised of young filmmakers who ventures emancipative and novel approaches to filmmaking.

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Director Statement

The project started with the idea of an equipment that can project dreams, then together with my producer Rocky Morilla, we developed a film concept about it. However, during that period, we've had a lot of limitations (health protocols and finance-wise) so we needed to streamline the concept into a low budget production without losing the impact of the idea and we resorted to producing the film with a two-man team.

Dreams being a realm of disjunct abstraction led me to choose experimental as its form. Carl Jung emphasized that dreams connect us to our primordial link with our ancestors and through these we also connect to every being– most especially nature. We are not mere separate individuals from nature; we are nature. These network of connections to everything in the universe give us the power to sustain each other. If one would realize these connections, one also realizes that inflicting damage to nature is the same as harming one's body. Simply put, the film is a dream within a dream within a dream. Through the different images projected from different characters, the connections of dreams, desires, fears, and consciousness are made.