Be Movies
Short Films of Khavn
Dir: Khavn

TO BE A MOVIE
Aldus Santos

BE MOVIES is Khavn de la Cruz’s stab at automatic filming. It is a collection that says you can get up anytime, and, like any other gluttonous craving, fulfill the longing to film at even the narrowest opportunities. It is also ego—it is the spitting confidence of a youngish filmmaker about an idea…any idea. If Marcel Proust argued in literature that there is no trivial subject matter, and that art is treatment—he described the act of dozing off to sleep in thirty pages or so in In Search of Lost Time—de la Cruz dares to attack the trivial with a dour straight face and with comicsincerity in this series of shorts.

BE MOVIES, in short, is a collection that raises a middle finger to the usual forms of film narrative. It is a collection that refuses, like a spoiled brat, to be traditionally agreeable. Here is a joker/auteur’s wasteland, where incidental noise is always present, where the music is always as exciting as the idea, where camera angles are unpredictable—on occasion you doubt that someone’s operating the camera at all—where taken-for-granted realities take center-stage.

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