By Marjorie Gorospe
INQUIRER.net

MARIKINA City, Philippines— Renei Dimla, creator of an animated 6-minute film Anomi, recently shared her masterpiece, which is a painted glass animated film about the irrelevance of social structure.

The short film focuses on the promotion of social consciousness as characterized by the scavenger who collects flies to sell to the rich.

The flies symbolize the decay that can ruin everyone, thus stressing the point that everyone will eventually “decay.”

Dimla’s Anomi won the first place in the Student Category of .MOV’s Silvershorts Awards last October 2008.

Dimla showed her short film to the public at the Magnet: Katipunan together with the other short films provided by the event organizer of .MOV (pronounced “dot-mov”), International Film Festival and Cinekatipunan.

“Sana matapos ko to at makapasa ako (I just wished to finish this and pass),” Dimla explains when asked if she had a hint that Anomi would win eventually. She created the film not for any contest but mainly as her thesis.

Dimla got the idea of Anomi from her experience in working for an organization in Tondo, Manila, where she saw the contrast between the poor people (the scavengers) and the rich.

“The point is, our society is really stratified. But whatever our status in the society, we will still all suffer under the same decay and only then that we will realize that we are equal, and that’s the only time we’ll realize the fullness of life,” Dimla stresses.

Dimla’s idea to use the painted glass animation was inspired by the technique used in the film ‘Doon sa Kabila ng Bulkan’ by Ellen Ramos, which happens to be her mentor when she was still taking up an animation elective in the University of the Philippines.

Dimla said that perseverance is the key to coming up with a good animated film.

According to her, it is an arduous process and it took her three months to finish the animated film.

.MOV is the first digital filmfest in the Philippines, which they said jumpstarted the digital revolution in the country back in 2002.