There’s deafening silence and troubling tranquility in the world inhabited by the stray felines in Anya Nicola Isabel Zulueta’s deeply ruminative short film “Cats and Dogs,” one of 15 shorts vying for the top plum in QCinema’s QC Short Shorts competition, whose winner will be announced tomorrow.
But don’t be fooled by Zulueta’s (a previous Pista winner for “Ang Kapitbahay Ko Sa 2014”) deceptively “conflict-free” visuals. The short isn’t merely rolled off the assembly line, and is boosted by a narrative imbued with a sensitive glow.
Much of the cogently framed production’s cautionary gist is, in fact, rooted in the telling voiceover of its protagonist (Gabby Padilla), detached f…
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