An Errand
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Film description
Moroya, the driver of an influential yet capricious businessman, is woken in the middle of the night by a phone call. He gets an assignment - to travel from Baguio to Manila and bring back a T-shirt with the Mona Lisa on it and some potency pills for his boss. What seems at first to be a simple errand turns into a claustrophobic laboratory of dreams and memories. Moroya is haunted by recollections of past jobs, conversations with other drivers, fleeting visions in which the present blurs with fantasies of the future. As he approaches his destination, he drifts between class divisions, the weight of hierarchy, and the absurdity of his task.
Adapted from a short story by Angelo Lacuesta, “An Errand” is a neo-noir road movie steeped in a dreamlike atmosphere of creeping alienation. Confined within the interior of a car gliding down the highway, the film draws the viewer into an introspective reflection on masculinity - one that becomes as much a fantasy as it is a torment. The director draws on the reservoir of road movie conventions, turning an ordinary vehicle into a vessel for storytelling, a space filled with digressions, myths, and overheard tales, where abuses and inequalities come to the surface. This is a film that turns a trifle into a telling symbol, and a run for a T-shirt and a pill into a striking portrait of a country where every journey is a drive to nowhere.
text:
Łukasz Mańkowski
Dominic Bekaert
Dominic Bekaert is a Filipino-Belgian audiovisual artist who also restores old films.
He studied film production at ESEC (École Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques) in France. In 2016, he returned to Manila to take up the position of director of the National Film Archive of the Philippines. There, he was responsible for restoring classic films, including Lino Brocka's “Insiang,” Gerry De Leon's “Noli Me Tangere,” by Gerry De Leon, and Batang Westside by Lav Diaz. In 2019, he and his wife, Clementine Bekaert, founded the production company Zoopraxi Studio. Together, they create and produce award-winning music videos and commercials. "An Errand" is his feature film debut.
2014 Adrift (short)
2024 Na robocie / An Errand


