I took my video camera with me on my 5 week holiday in the Philippines last winter, but forgot the battery charger and couldn't find one there. With the battery that I had with me I could still videotape about 5 minutes.
I had to really think what I wanted to film for those 5 minutes. There were different occasions, e.g. the international cockfight derby finals, us drinking fresh coconuts, going fishing, being at an extraordinarily white beach and turquoise water, visiting a run down palace that Marcos had built only 25 years ago.
The following video description is the 5 min I chose to shoot.

It's my last evening of my holidays in the Philippines. My boyfriend's aunts (titas) and uncles (titos) come around especially to say good-bye.
Tito Baby brought his 45-calibre gun across Manila to show me how to shoot again so that I could videotape it. I really wanted him to do this since he took us to a shooting range a few weeks earlier.
Tito Baby was a colonel in the Philippine army and has taught a lot of people how to shoot. He attempted a coup against the president Corazon Aquino in 1989 and was in prison for 5 years. During our time in the Philippines he invited us to his home and generously showed us around the country.

HOMEMADE: A Program of Artists' Videos; currated by Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat, Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Deutschland, November 2003