Carlo Tabije

Películas

In My Mother's Skin
Costume Design
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
In My Mother's Skin
Production Design
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
Efecto nocebo
Costume Design
Una diseñadora de moda sufre una enfermedad misteriosa que desconcierta a sus médicos y frustra a su esposo, hasta que llega la ayuda de un cuidador filipino, que usa la curación popular tradicional para revelar una verdad horrible.
Midnight in a Perfect World
Production Design
In the near future, Manila is an almost-utopian city, but they still believe in ghost stories. Nobody survives the mysterious blackouts that happen in random parts of the city after midnight. Nobody believes the horrors in its darkness are even real. Four friends are about to find out that you don’t need to believe, for it to come for you.
Siargao
Production Design
Fresh from a breakup caused by her fear of settling down, video blogger Laura embarks on a solo trip to Siargao hoping to move on and find a new adventure. Here she meets rock singer Diego who is caught between uncertainties of the future and baggages of the past. This fateful encounter stirs up what local entrepreneur Abi thought were long lost feelings for a long lost love, i.e. Diego. In this unlikely triangle, is there room for second chances? Or should they move on to something(one) new?
Si Chedeng at Si Apple
Production Design
In the wake of her husband's death, Chedeng, 66, decides to come out of the closet. Her best friend Apple, 63, beheads her live-in partner in a fit of rage. Bound by friendship, the two elderly women, together with the severed head placed inside a Louis Vuitton bag, set off an adventure to find Chedeng's ex-girlfriend.
Singing in Graveyards
Production Design
Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend’s concert but he must do something neither of them has done before – write a love song.
Brotherhood
Art Direction
A story focusing on a elite law school fraternity, it follows a week in the lives of a neophyte, a master, and a lawyer alumnus, and crosses the lines of money, power and connections within Manila’s society.
Heneral Luna
Production Design
A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
Above the Clouds
Production Design
A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.
Cautiva
Art Direction
Therese Bourgoine, una voluntaria francesa que participa en una misión humanitaria en la isla de Palawan, un territorio salvaje de junglas y montañas, es secuestrada por el grupo Abu Sayyaf, un movimiento separatista yihadista que preconiza la independencia de un estado fundamentalista islámico que englobaría el oeste de Mindanao y el archipiélago de Sulu. (FILMAFFINITY)
Senior Year
Art Direction
A high school movie featuring a mix of real students and professional actors that deals with the experience of finding one's identity in a country that barely has one.
Serbis
Production Design
La familia Pineda –un matriarcado alrededor del cual pululan hijos, nietos, primos y sobrinos- regenta un viejo, barroco, decadente y laberíntico cine dedicado al género erótico. Mientras los miembros de la familia suben y bajan escaleras en sus quehaceres cotidianos, viven ajenos a todo lo que acontece en la sala y los más que poblados pasillos del cine, en los que la prostitución y los travestis campan a sus anchas. Con la bulliciosa Manila como incesante ruido de fondo, el cine, que es también la vivienda de la familia, se revela como un microcosmos con sus propias normas. Especie de neorrealismo a la filipina, la aridez y aparente crudeza de la acción (que apenas abandona el cine) no hace más que aumentar la ternura que despiertan los miembros de este sorprendente clan. Quizá no resulte tan irónico que el nombre del cine sea Family.