Khavn

Khavn

약력

Khavn, originally named Khavn de la Cruz, is a very outspoken, experimental filmmaker. He has directed over 100 films, making him one of the most productive filmmakers in the Philippines, and far beyond. He also heads up Kamias Overground, an independent publishing company, and works as a composer, songwriter, pianist and writer. Since 2002, he has been director of the .MOV International Film, Music & Literature Festival. As a jury member, he has been present at multiple festivals, including Berlinale and the Leipzig Film Festival.

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Khavn

참여 작품

Makbetamaximus
Director
“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious Filipino multi-hyphenate Khavn De La Cruz could deliver. Unfolding in the Municipality of Marcos, Ilocos Norte and Khavn’s own Burroughsian Interzone of Mondomanila – also the title of the director’s crazed horror-comedy-crime drama, which premiered at IFFR 2012 – this mash-up of styles, genres, moods and atmospheres features a cast of over 100 performers and defies any easy description, even with so familiar a text. But as Khavn says of his source material, "Usually, word is king. Here, text is just one of the many cogs. It’s a column, a roof shingle, an ornament."
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
Director
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Director
The Devil of Comparisons
Director
The Devil of Comparisons (original title: El Demonio de las Comparaciones), was a 30-hour black & white silent film from 1929 by Narding Salome Exelsio (1883-1949). It explores the cyclical lives, deaths, and rebirths of Jose Rizal and his characters (played by hitherto unidentified actors) in a wasteland ruled by demons.
2Bayani
Original Music Composer
The old Aguinaldo speaks from another time as he writes his memoirs of Bonifacio, the Katipunan, and the revolution. He has a strong urge to tell his side of the story.
Skylab
Music
The year is 1979, the Skylab satellite is falling to Earth. In the days leading up to the crash, two troubled boys wait for doomsday, only to realize that darker forces are threatening them.
Love Is a Dog from Hell
Director
Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike, deceased from food poisoning on January 22nd. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love?
Orphea
Executive Producer
A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
Orphea
Music
A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
Orphea
Writer
A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
Orphea
Director
A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
How To Not Make A Film
Cinematography
This is a special performance by Khavn de la Cruz, performed and recorded during the first day of the online Film Pantun Workshop organised by SeaShorts Film Society.
How To Not Make A Film
Director
This is a special performance by Khavn de la Cruz, performed and recorded during the first day of the online Film Pantun Workshop organised by SeaShorts Film Society.
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
Cinematography
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
Director
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
Writer
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
Music
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
Producer
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).
Mr. Duck-Egg
Director
This is not a short film by Khavn.
그날 밤에 생긴 일
Original Music Composer
여느 때와 다름없는 평범한 야간 근무를 하던 그날 밤, 경찰관 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 수월해 보이는 출동 명령을 받는다. 악명 높은 강도 집단을 붙잡아서 지정된 장소에 인도하는 것. 수송차 안에는 범죄자 네 명과 경찰 네 명이 있다. 그러나 그들을 수송하는 도중에 명령이 변경되고, 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 명령에 따르는 것과 옳은 일을 하는 것 중 하나를 선택을 해야만 한다.
그날 밤에 생긴 일
Production Design
여느 때와 다름없는 평범한 야간 근무를 하던 그날 밤, 경찰관 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 수월해 보이는 출동 명령을 받는다. 악명 높은 강도 집단을 붙잡아서 지정된 장소에 인도하는 것. 수송차 안에는 범죄자 네 명과 경찰 네 명이 있다. 그러나 그들을 수송하는 도중에 명령이 변경되고, 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 명령에 따르는 것과 옳은 일을 하는 것 중 하나를 선택을 해야만 한다.
그날 밤에 생긴 일
Screenplay
여느 때와 다름없는 평범한 야간 근무를 하던 그날 밤, 경찰관 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 수월해 보이는 출동 명령을 받는다. 악명 높은 강도 집단을 붙잡아서 지정된 장소에 인도하는 것. 수송차 안에는 범죄자 네 명과 경찰 네 명이 있다. 그러나 그들을 수송하는 도중에 명령이 변경되고, 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 명령에 따르는 것과 옳은 일을 하는 것 중 하나를 선택을 해야만 한다.
그날 밤에 생긴 일
Producer
여느 때와 다름없는 평범한 야간 근무를 하던 그날 밤, 경찰관 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 수월해 보이는 출동 명령을 받는다. 악명 높은 강도 집단을 붙잡아서 지정된 장소에 인도하는 것. 수송차 안에는 범죄자 네 명과 경찰 네 명이 있다. 그러나 그들을 수송하는 도중에 명령이 변경되고, 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 명령에 따르는 것과 옳은 일을 하는 것 중 하나를 선택을 해야만 한다.
그날 밤에 생긴 일
Director
여느 때와 다름없는 평범한 야간 근무를 하던 그날 밤, 경찰관 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 수월해 보이는 출동 명령을 받는다. 악명 높은 강도 집단을 붙잡아서 지정된 장소에 인도하는 것. 수송차 안에는 범죄자 네 명과 경찰 네 명이 있다. 그러나 그들을 수송하는 도중에 명령이 변경되고, 에스퀴벨과 코라존은 명령에 따르는 것과 옳은 일을 하는 것 중 하나를 선택을 해야만 한다.
행복의 애가
Screenplay
마닐라 출신의 젊은 거장 카븐 드 라 크루스를 탐구한다. 서커스, 열광의 도가니 그리고 무엇보다도 엘비스 프레슬리가 부른 ‘블루 문’에 관해 이야기한다. 헬게 슈나이더가 출연할 뿐만 아니라, 하이너 뮐러가 달의 개념을 철학적으로 분석한다.
행복의 애가
Music
마닐라 출신의 젊은 거장 카븐 드 라 크루스를 탐구한다. 서커스, 열광의 도가니 그리고 무엇보다도 엘비스 프레슬리가 부른 ‘블루 문’에 관해 이야기한다. 헬게 슈나이더가 출연할 뿐만 아니라, 하이너 뮐러가 달의 개념을 철학적으로 분석한다.
Shock Me Shokoy
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Story
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Screenplay
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Music
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Producer
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Director
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
Writer
A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades, they are released but soon begin to disappear one by one.
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
Director
A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades, they are released but soon begin to disappear one by one.
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades, they are released but soon begin to disappear one by one.
Simulacrum Tremendum
Director
The filmmaker is fairly young, otherwise you could say this extremely long film is Khavn’s life's work. Because it is so long and the maker is Filipino, you might think he is following in the footsteps of Lav Diaz, but this is very different, more experimental, documentary-surrealistic cinema. A collection of images like Jonas Mekas also makes, although Manila is not New York. Khavn started shooting this diary 22 years ago, and in the course of time he has made recordings with all sorts of cameras, from analogue video8 via mini-DV to iPhone. He does not present the recordings in chronological order, however.
Filipiniana
Writer
To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered mythology.
Filipiniana
Director
To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered mythology.
Desaparadiso
Writer
What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can’t go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected in this way by the cruelty of the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986). The film shows one of them as an example of paradise lost.
Desaparadiso
Director
What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can’t go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected in this way by the cruelty of the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986). The film shows one of them as an example of paradise lost.
Esoterica: Manila
Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of a young man en route to becoming a creative artist.
루인드 하트: 킬러와 창녀의 러브스토리
The Pianist
마닐라의 어느 골목, 쇠주먹으로 구역을 평정한 이가 있다. 미신과 협박을 이용해 권력을 유지하는 그는, 이것이 먹히지 않는 곳에 부하들을 이용한다. 가장 충실한 심복에게 그는 자신의 여자를 돌보게 한다. 오래지 않아 여자는 그 심복과 사랑에 빠지고, 이 불운한 커플은 이곳을 떠나기로 결심한다. 필연적으로 싸움이 뒤따르지만, 남녀는 오히려 이 순간 서로에 대해 알게 되는데… (2015년 제19회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
루인드 하트: 킬러와 창녀의 러브스토리
Screenplay
마닐라의 어느 골목, 쇠주먹으로 구역을 평정한 이가 있다. 미신과 협박을 이용해 권력을 유지하는 그는, 이것이 먹히지 않는 곳에 부하들을 이용한다. 가장 충실한 심복에게 그는 자신의 여자를 돌보게 한다. 오래지 않아 여자는 그 심복과 사랑에 빠지고, 이 불운한 커플은 이곳을 떠나기로 결심한다. 필연적으로 싸움이 뒤따르지만, 남녀는 오히려 이 순간 서로에 대해 알게 되는데… (2015년 제19회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
루인드 하트: 킬러와 창녀의 러브스토리
Director
마닐라의 어느 골목, 쇠주먹으로 구역을 평정한 이가 있다. 미신과 협박을 이용해 권력을 유지하는 그는, 이것이 먹히지 않는 곳에 부하들을 이용한다. 가장 충실한 심복에게 그는 자신의 여자를 돌보게 한다. 오래지 않아 여자는 그 심복과 사랑에 빠지고, 이 불운한 커플은 이곳을 떠나기로 결심한다. 필연적으로 싸움이 뒤따르지만, 남녀는 오히려 이 순간 서로에 대해 알게 되는데… (2015년 제19회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
Director
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
Music
EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The present leader KULOG NEGRO has led the country to progress; his rallying call is championing poverty for the benefit of tourists and film festivals. But the well-meaning leader is a mere puppet in the political arena and someone has just decided that he has to go.
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
Producer
EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The present leader KULOG NEGRO has led the country to progress; his rallying call is championing poverty for the benefit of tourists and film festivals. But the well-meaning leader is a mere puppet in the political arena and someone has just decided that he has to go.
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
Writer
EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The present leader KULOG NEGRO has led the country to progress; his rallying call is championing poverty for the benefit of tourists and film festivals. But the well-meaning leader is a mere puppet in the political arena and someone has just decided that he has to go.
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
Director
EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The present leader KULOG NEGRO has led the country to progress; his rallying call is championing poverty for the benefit of tourists and film festivals. But the well-meaning leader is a mere puppet in the political arena and someone has just decided that he has to go.
Solar Syokoy
Director
A merman is washed not ashore but into the heart of a bustling metro. Disoriented, he walks around and runs into several characters, all of them in the middle of their nightly grind.
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
Writer
Short film from by Khavn.
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
Director
Short film from by Khavn.
Breather
Cinematography
A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence and mortality.
Breather
Producer
A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence and mortality.
Breather
Writer
A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence and mortality.
Breather
Director
A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence and mortality.
Kommander Kulas
Director
Kommander Kulas wakes up several times and dreams that he is a giant cockroach. He wakes up for the last time and sees there are stitches on his chest: Someone has stolen his heart during the night. So along with his best and only friend, The Poor Carabao, he ventures the long and unwinding road of Kamias, which spans the vast landscape of the Philippines, to look for his missing heart. Kommander Kulas, the official fool, meets several hearty characters in the tarot card deck of his journey. Lovesong numbers are scattered throughout the film. In the end, Kommander Kulas does not find his heart. He has a heart attack in the middle of the road. The end.
Ang kaisa-isang konsiyerto ng kagila-gilalas na kombo ni Kumander Kulas at ng kanyang kawawang kalabaw sa walang katapusang kalsada ng Kamyas
Writer
Structural feature film about a burning piano.
Ang kaisa-isang konsiyerto ng kagila-gilalas na kombo ni Kumander Kulas at ng kanyang kawawang kalabaw sa walang katapusang kalsada ng Kamyas
Director
Structural feature film about a burning piano.
Zero
Music
On his film Dodo wrote: “Whenever I’m asked what Zero is exactly, I tell them it’s a ghost story. Also, a love story. And how they really are the same thing.”
Mondomanila
Producer
Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.
Mondomanila
Music
Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.
Mondomanila
Screenplay
Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.
Mondomanila
Director
Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.
The Trial of Mr. Serapio
Screenplay
a film by Khavn.
The Trial of Mr. Serapio
Director
a film by Khavn.
Son of God
Producer
The directors want to shoot a film about a man known as the son of god. But what starts out as a practical joke, extends to become a curious portrait of what could either be a petty fraud or the world’s most secret miracle. A film crew tracks his bizarre pilgrimage as magic and religion, faith and doubt, real and unreal blur and melt to the point that one of the director becomes one of the characters. The film traverses all descriptions, before ending as both an affirmation of faith for the faithless and a criticism of faith for the overly faithful.
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Himself
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Writer
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
Son of God
Writer
The directors want to shoot a film about a man known as the son of god. But what starts out as a practical joke, extends to become a curious portrait of what could either be a petty fraud or the world’s most secret miracle. A film crew tracks his bizarre pilgrimage as magic and religion, faith and doubt, real and unreal blur and melt to the point that one of the director becomes one of the characters. The film traverses all descriptions, before ending as both an affirmation of faith for the faithless and a criticism of faith for the overly faithful.
Son of God
Director
The directors want to shoot a film about a man known as the son of god. But what starts out as a practical joke, extends to become a curious portrait of what could either be a petty fraud or the world’s most secret miracle. A film crew tracks his bizarre pilgrimage as magic and religion, faith and doubt, real and unreal blur and melt to the point that one of the director becomes one of the characters. The film traverses all descriptions, before ending as both an affirmation of faith for the faithless and a criticism of faith for the overly faithful.
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
Writer
Love letters from a relationship between Cameroon and the Philippines.
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
Director
Love letters from a relationship between Cameroon and the Philippines.
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Director
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
Our Daily Bread
Director
A short documentary on how one family lives out each day to earn their daily bread. How one man's trash is literally transformed into this family's treasure.
I Am The Drowning Sea
Music
I am the drowning sea. Waxing, waning, vanishing, surrendering, yearning, drunk, helpless against your indifference, with no way out. You are the shore that never saves. I will wait for you to turn into a wave. And we will waltz. Drown together.
I Am The Drowning Sea
Director
I am the drowning sea. Waxing, waning, vanishing, surrendering, yearning, drunk, helpless against your indifference, with no way out. You are the shore that never saves. I will wait for you to turn into a wave. And we will waltz. Drown together.
The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO
Director
The dark man crosses the purgatorial blight bearing his cargoes of sin, his blasted pilgrimage like some fever dream passion play, a primordial hallucination soaked in doom and grime.
Literature
Writer
A man reading on the street.
Literature
Director
A man reading on the street.
Taon Noong Ako'y Anak sa Labas
Music
Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.
Taon Noong Ako'y Anak sa Labas
Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.
Philippine Bliss
Writer
"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law era. These people, whose names allude to familiar characters from Jose Rizal's novels, narrate their private yet vivid stories of loss, longing, and Third World despair, all intersecting in a public arena that is their packed community. Theirs are lives seen with an oftentimes comic eye, unabashedly bound by a wild and brimming sense of Filipino hope.
Philippine Bliss
Producer
"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law era. These people, whose names allude to familiar characters from Jose Rizal's novels, narrate their private yet vivid stories of loss, longing, and Third World despair, all intersecting in a public arena that is their packed community. Theirs are lives seen with an oftentimes comic eye, unabashedly bound by a wild and brimming sense of Filipino hope.
Philippine Bliss
Director
"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law era. These people, whose names allude to familiar characters from Jose Rizal's novels, narrate their private yet vivid stories of loss, longing, and Third World despair, all intersecting in a public arena that is their packed community. Theirs are lives seen with an oftentimes comic eye, unabashedly bound by a wild and brimming sense of Filipino hope.
Overdosed Nightmare
Director
"Overdosed Nightmare" is Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" without the perfume, a pure nightmare set in wounded Manila, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus. A gang of rat-munching, homophobic bums kill the night clumsily. Jesus H. Christ gets crucified for the nth time in Dagger Island. A greaseman, the image model for Poverty, bums around the Edsa Revolution anniversary which ousts another corrupt president, Estrada the actor. And Tony D., the shrewd short-fused citizen of the Philippine ghetto, sets his sights on foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America's grandeur at the expense of Third World inequity.
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
Producer
A tribute-cum-reformulation-in-film of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal's poem "Mi Ultimo Adios," Khavn's "Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero" explores identity and nationhood as viewed through the lens of a truly post-colonial individual. Ultimo is a 90-minute black-and-white silent film, with scenes from the director's meanderings in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) interspersed with lines from Rizal's poem, which was written a day before the hero's execution in 1896. Waiting, ambivalence, and re-membering —themes usually tackled in literature and criticism— are investigated through a series of images: the mundane elevated to the affective through a sensibility that does not shy away from pushing the boundaries of art. This version is scored by a post-kundiman duet of guitar and banduria.
Bahag Kings
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, King Green, King Purple, & King Orange, the seven rainbow [bahag-hari] kings [hari] of ethnic g-string [bahag] descent. Bouncing in their kombi van, from nature’s forest to the city’s jungle, the Bahag Kings descend from being noble rulers to village idiots as they search high & low for the missing “Wala” [Nothing]. And see how they handled a true-to-life police arrest.
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
Writer
A tribute-cum-reformulation-in-film of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal's poem "Mi Ultimo Adios," Khavn's "Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero" explores identity and nationhood as viewed through the lens of a truly post-colonial individual. Ultimo is a 90-minute black-and-white silent film, with scenes from the director's meanderings in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) interspersed with lines from Rizal's poem, which was written a day before the hero's execution in 1896. Waiting, ambivalence, and re-membering —themes usually tackled in literature and criticism— are investigated through a series of images: the mundane elevated to the affective through a sensibility that does not shy away from pushing the boundaries of art. This version is scored by a post-kundiman duet of guitar and banduria.
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
Director
A tribute-cum-reformulation-in-film of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal's poem "Mi Ultimo Adios," Khavn's "Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero" explores identity and nationhood as viewed through the lens of a truly post-colonial individual. Ultimo is a 90-minute black-and-white silent film, with scenes from the director's meanderings in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) interspersed with lines from Rizal's poem, which was written a day before the hero's execution in 1896. Waiting, ambivalence, and re-membering —themes usually tackled in literature and criticism— are investigated through a series of images: the mundane elevated to the affective through a sensibility that does not shy away from pushing the boundaries of art. This version is scored by a post-kundiman duet of guitar and banduria.
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
Writer
A man fantasizes about horses and sleeps with a woman.
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
Director
A man fantasizes about horses and sleeps with a woman.
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
Writer
A man follows a woman through the streets.
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
Director
A man follows a woman through the streets.
Bahag Kings
Writer
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, King Green, King Purple, & King Orange, the seven rainbow [bahag-hari] kings [hari] of ethnic g-string [bahag] descent. Bouncing in their kombi van, from nature’s forest to the city’s jungle, the Bahag Kings descend from being noble rulers to village idiots as they search high & low for the missing “Wala” [Nothing]. And see how they handled a true-to-life police arrest.
Bahag Kings
Director
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, King Green, King Purple, & King Orange, the seven rainbow [bahag-hari] kings [hari] of ethnic g-string [bahag] descent. Bouncing in their kombi van, from nature’s forest to the city’s jungle, the Bahag Kings descend from being noble rulers to village idiots as they search high & low for the missing “Wala” [Nothing]. And see how they handled a true-to-life police arrest.
Squatterpunk
Writer
Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existence at the margins of society. This rawly shot documentary follows Hapon and his mates as they swagger around their dilapidated universe. Featuring a punk-rock score by director Khavn's band the Brockas, the film captures a carefree spirit in the children that completely belies the squalid conditions in which they live.
Squatterpunk
Director
Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existence at the margins of society. This rawly shot documentary follows Hapon and his mates as they swagger around their dilapidated universe. Featuring a punk-rock score by director Khavn's band the Brockas, the film captures a carefree spirit in the children that completely belies the squalid conditions in which they live.
The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One
Director
An unedited blur of random images from a day in a life of Jesus Corazon, the serial rapist-killer of Manila who collects women's hearts in glass jars. Mixed with snuff & other found footage. Accompanied by a non-sequitur deluge of distorted guitar, a synthetic piano orchestra, drum&bass, and abstract spokenword poetry.
The Longest Moment You're Not Here
Director
Who are you waiting for? How long have you been waiting? How much longer can you wait? In the calm after the storm comes the unbearable longing for the elusive One.
Three Days of Darkness
Music
Girls are hidden in a dark room.
The Last Gag of Buster Quizon
Writer
Silent short.
The Last Gag of Buster Quizon
Director
Silent short.
Three Days of Darkness
Writer
Girls are hidden in a dark room.
Three Days of Darkness
Director
Girls are hidden in a dark room.
Buryong
Editor
A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From mundane chores, to work, to scenes of domesticity, to killing time, we are asked to observe and meditate on these moments. A lot can happen in the span of a minute. An entire lifetime even. Buryong is an epistle to time and to boredom. This could be your minute; this could be your life. How are you spending it?
Buryong
Writer
A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From mundane chores, to work, to scenes of domesticity, to killing time, we are asked to observe and meditate on these moments. A lot can happen in the span of a minute. An entire lifetime even. Buryong is an epistle to time and to boredom. This could be your minute; this could be your life. How are you spending it?
Buryong
Director
A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From mundane chores, to work, to scenes of domesticity, to killing time, we are asked to observe and meditate on these moments. A lot can happen in the span of a minute. An entire lifetime even. Buryong is an epistle to time and to boredom. This could be your minute; this could be your life. How are you spending it?
Todo Todo Teros
Music
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together to form an intriguing puzzle.
Goodbye My Shooting Star
Music
K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K. and Ana. A mix of music video, poetry reading, and offbeat romance – this is Khavn’s wildside romance.
Goodbye My Shooting Star
K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K. and Ana. A mix of music video, poetry reading, and offbeat romance – this is Khavn’s wildside romance.
Goodbye My Shooting Star
Director
K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K. and Ana. A mix of music video, poetry reading, and offbeat romance – this is Khavn’s wildside romance.
Rugby Boyz
Director
These boys know the dual essence of rugby: playing football and sniffing solvent. They tell vampire jokes, rap about river deaths, and dive like jack-knives into the murky water. The cruel irony of the hope these children bring.
Vampire of Quezon City
Producer
The Pinoy vampire - a bloodthirsty Aswang - stalks the streets of Quezon City in search of fresh victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of a dangerous human predator. Gruesome and grisly murders are our entry point into the psyche of the Aswang of Quezon City. More a meditation on the workings of a disturbed mind than a detective thriller, it nonetheless shows us a cat and mouse mind game. We watch and squirm in terror as the Pinoy vampire strikes again and again.
Vampire of Quezon City
Screenplay
The Pinoy vampire - a bloodthirsty Aswang - stalks the streets of Quezon City in search of fresh victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of a dangerous human predator. Gruesome and grisly murders are our entry point into the psyche of the Aswang of Quezon City. More a meditation on the workings of a disturbed mind than a detective thriller, it nonetheless shows us a cat and mouse mind game. We watch and squirm in terror as the Pinoy vampire strikes again and again.
Kamias: Memory of Forgetting
Director
'Kamias' weaves images of the artist's family and personal life with a strong, if not sad, narrative thread. In concise, poetic narration, Khavn takes us deep into the psyche of a young artist.
Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World
Writer
Short superhero film.
Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World
Director
Short superhero film.
Old East Side
Writer
Fast forwarding through Batang West Side.
Old East Side
Director
Fast forwarding through Batang West Side.
Vampire of Quezon City
Director
The Pinoy vampire - a bloodthirsty Aswang - stalks the streets of Quezon City in search of fresh victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of a dangerous human predator. Gruesome and grisly murders are our entry point into the psyche of the Aswang of Quezon City. More a meditation on the workings of a disturbed mind than a detective thriller, it nonetheless shows us a cat and mouse mind game. We watch and squirm in terror as the Pinoy vampire strikes again and again.
Last Take, Last Shot
A black comedy film, which focuses on two film workers, Raffy, the clapper, and Dido, a utility boy. Both share the same dream: to direct their own films someday. Their lives as mere "small production people" took a different turn when, together with the people in the unit van they were riding,had an encounter with armed men. Their co-workers were killed, and the two of them were forced to drive the unit van out of fear until it ran out of gas. The van contains equipment for movie production like cameras, lights and film stocks. They ended up in a secluded barrio not yet reached by modern technology, and therefore, the townsfolk knew nothing of the movie industry.
Idol: Hero/Villain
Director
Bayani S. Makapili is an ordinary guy who is a big fan of action movies, especially the ones starring Bida, the #1 action hero in the land. One fateful day, Bayani’s life imitates that of his idol, but with different results. The audience is presented with five-and-a-half different endings.
Can & Slippers
Music
Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film is raw enough as it is. We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. No ball or cleats, but a Coke can and flip-flops are the ingredients for a virtuoso demonstration of the football art. Only at the end does it become apparent why the little ball juggler will never be a Ronaldinho.
Can & Slippers
Writer
Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film is raw enough as it is. We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. No ball or cleats, but a Coke can and flip-flops are the ingredients for a virtuoso demonstration of the football art. Only at the end does it become apparent why the little ball juggler will never be a Ronaldinho.
Can & Slippers
Producer
Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film is raw enough as it is. We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. No ball or cleats, but a Coke can and flip-flops are the ingredients for a virtuoso demonstration of the football art. Only at the end does it become apparent why the little ball juggler will never be a Ronaldinho.
Can & Slippers
Director
Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film is raw enough as it is. We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. No ball or cleats, but a Coke can and flip-flops are the ingredients for a virtuoso demonstration of the football art. Only at the end does it become apparent why the little ball juggler will never be a Ronaldinho.
Small Ali
Director
Absurdist short comedy in the best camp and gore tradition. Little Ali has the handicap as a boxer that he keeps crying continually and heartrendingly. As a result, he keeps losing his bouts with the lightweight boxing champion Mad Cow. One day he sees an advertisement by the Klinika Lakrima, where they can operate to remove his tear ducts. Sensitivity is not the right word to describe this operation.
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Music
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
Editor
The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the Book of Revelation for one of the most frightening phenomenon prophesied to happen. Three girls are trapped in their home as the Three Days of Darkness descend on the Earth and they must cope and try to fend off the demons that have come to take them. A chilling vision of God's Wrath or of people imposing God's Wrath on one another, the film frightens with its questions as much as it does with its visuals.
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
Writer
The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the Book of Revelation for one of the most frightening phenomenon prophesied to happen. Three girls are trapped in their home as the Three Days of Darkness descend on the Earth and they must cope and try to fend off the demons that have come to take them. A chilling vision of God's Wrath or of people imposing God's Wrath on one another, the film frightens with its questions as much as it does with its visuals.
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
Director
The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the Book of Revelation for one of the most frightening phenomenon prophesied to happen. Three girls are trapped in their home as the Three Days of Darkness descend on the Earth and they must cope and try to fend off the demons that have come to take them. A chilling vision of God's Wrath or of people imposing God's Wrath on one another, the film frightens with its questions as much as it does with its visuals.
The Family That Eats Soil
Dead Man on TV
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.
The Family That Eats Soil
Writer
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.
The Family That Eats Soil
Director
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.
Headless
Writer
The start of the film sets the tone. A tortured man looks as if he will castrate himself. Later he staggers aimlessly and bleeding heavily through the streets of a town that is just waking up. In parallel, the film shows the marital discussions of a couple, with the husband hiding behind the camera.
Headless
Director
The start of the film sets the tone. A tortured man looks as if he will castrate himself. Later he staggers aimlessly and bleeding heavily through the streets of a town that is just waking up. In parallel, the film shows the marital discussions of a couple, with the husband hiding behind the camera.
Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata
Writer
An American gets killed by a Filipino. Early version of the later feature film.
Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata
Director
An American gets killed by a Filipino. Early version of the later feature film.
Barong Brothers
Director
Khavn is jack of all trades. In this case he brings an improvised homage to the great silent slapstick tradition. In the idiom of the silent film, but with the absurdist humour of Dada, he presents two brothers who wear the traditional Filipino barong. They are looking for two missing brothers, but in fact mainly get in each other's way. The necessary colourful slapstick extras cross their path as well.
Greaseman
Writer
Experimental feature film involving a car crash.
Greaseman
Director
Experimental feature film involving a car crash.
The Twelve
Producer
"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life". This feature-length genre-bending digital work features scenes of "The Apostles" drinking the night away while waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, interpolated with musical vignettes that evoke but take further the shattered narrative of "Breaking The Waves". "The Twelve" is a deceptive postmodern work that explored themes of faith, redemption, and contemporary values, and balances satire, science fiction, and social critique.
The Twelve
Writer
"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life". This feature-length genre-bending digital work features scenes of "The Apostles" drinking the night away while waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, interpolated with musical vignettes that evoke but take further the shattered narrative of "Breaking The Waves". "The Twelve" is a deceptive postmodern work that explored themes of faith, redemption, and contemporary values, and balances satire, science fiction, and social critique.
The Twelve
Director
"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life". This feature-length genre-bending digital work features scenes of "The Apostles" drinking the night away while waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, interpolated with musical vignettes that evoke but take further the shattered narrative of "Breaking The Waves". "The Twelve" is a deceptive postmodern work that explored themes of faith, redemption, and contemporary values, and balances satire, science fiction, and social critique.
Amen
Writer
A man goes on a thanking spree.
Amen
Director
A man goes on a thanking spree.
Ultimo
Director
Farewell, to all I love. To die is to rest, writes Jose Rizal, and where his poem ends, "Ultimo" begins. It is a black-and-white silent film, with scenes from the director's meanderings in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) inspired by Rizal's poem, which was written a day before the hero's execution in 1896. It explores identity and nationhood as viewed through a post-colonial lens.