Most home movie fanatics at the time shot on 8mm film, but John, keenly aware of the power of good quality film, had invested in a 16mm Bolex camera. “They were simple cameras,” he recalls.

Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghetti western." The decade-long path of the film ...