It's worth talking about the process: Glenn Barit and his team shot an entire movie. Then, they took eight frames out of every second and printed them out. Then they photocopied those printouts in black and white. And they took highlighters and physically colored in certain sections of every frame. And then they scanned those images and assembled them back into a movie.

What we get feels like a memory. It is easy enough to dismiss it in the abstract as a gimmick, but when you see it, the process feels vital to what the film is delivering. It is a hazy remembrance of the formative years of a group of young people, in the moments where their perception of…

Admit it, your high school years are the most chaotic years of your life, and whether you love it or not, you can’t help but to look back at your most embarrassing moments in the four or six or whatever the number of years you spent in high school. Cleaners is a comedy anthology about seven high school students and their experience in a catholic school in Tuguegarao City. While their stories differ in severity and hilarity, all of them share one thing–they’re all classroom cleaners. 

I’ll admit, I hated the six years I spent in my alma mater. I did a lot of humiliating things, both to myself and others, and I felt like I did not reach my…

Embarrassment. Humiliation. Cringe.

We've all been there. May mga moments talaga tayo nung high school na sana mawala na sa ating isipan. Tangina, ang dami. Di ko na mabilang yung sakin. My high school life was full of shit and cringe that are forever scarred in my memory.

Rebellion. Defiance. Self-discovery.

Anong role niyo nung high school? Basta ako, I'm a bit of a weirdo nerd back then hahaha. Also, I think we can all agree na nakakabadtrip talaga yung mapang-abuso at mapang-api na awtoridad at sistema ng ating paaralan. Actually, ang bait ko nung high school haha. Lagi ko ginagalang at ningingitian ang mga guro dito samin pero deep down, gusto ko na talaga sila awayin, give them the…

This movie is testament to the fact that if you’re the first to an innovative style and you commit to doing it well, that can and will carry your film. Picturing this movie without the printer paper/highlighter aesthetic I could see almost all of it falling flat, but everything here is so elevated and justified by that one choice.

The moments where the style goes above and beyond are damn near transcendent. Like at the end of the love story where their colors begin to combine and dance on the motorcycle. Shame that that story was weird and the dude mutilating his dick in front of his bullies was treated like a victory as opposed to the deranged act it…