The Films of Khavn

Mondomanila
Dir: Khavn
Starring Marvin Agustin

TThe Palanca, The Philippines' most prestigious literary contest, hails the Grand Prize novel "Mondomanila" as the new "Manila In The Claws Of Neon" (Lino Brocka). The award-winning screenplay adaptation made the Jury call it 'Better than "Trainspotting" & "City Of God." Read more...

"IDOL"
Dir: Khavn
Starring Angel Aquino

BAYANI MAKAPILI is an ordinary brown chap who is a big fan of action movies, especially the ones starring HERO [BIDA], the #1 action hero in the land. Read more...

The Twelve
Dir: Khavn
Starring Angel Aquino

The reincarnations of the 12 Apostles meet once again to await Christ's Second Coming. A slacker-MTV version of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot". Read more...

A psychedelic silent-film about the contrapuntal lives of a Greaseman (Third-world Bum) and a Yuppie, intersecting and interchanging, one hazy night. An improvisatory "Prince & Pauper" shot in a day. Read more...

"This is the portrait of the artist's family. We are introduced to his elder sister, mother, the baby, and his brother-in-law. It is now time before dawn, and as always these days, he is unable to get to sleep. The confused images on the screen have a strange power to them and effectively convey to viewers the inner life of the filmmaker." Hiroshi Minami, 19TH TOKYO VIDEO FESTIVAL Read more...

"We can hit a point in cinema where basically there's no need for any one to be in the room except for two actors, let's say, involved in a scene sitting at a table, each one wearing a video camera on their shoulder. The director would only have to come and tell them what the scene's about, and possibly where they should go and then the director could leave and go get something to eat. Then come back two hours later, [the actors] would still be going and there'd be these matching one-shots." - Harmony Korine (Gummo, juliendonkeyboy) Read more...

BE MOVIES is Khavn’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. -Aldus Santos Read more...

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Where soulmates meet only in their dreams, while reality bites harshly. Read more...

A videoke adventure fantasy about an inverted Manila where in a pseudo-Victor Wood battles the polio-mastermind Freddie Aguilar. Read more...

A treasure hunter looks for the Golden Throne guarded by a menacing wild hermit. The surrealist sequel to the super-8 cult classic "Tronong Puti" (White Throne). Read more...

A black comedy on media, poverty, & freak shows. Read more...

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