Movies: Khavn

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...

A woman walks along the military fence bordering the historic waters of the Suez Canal. Intertitles from a poem about the distance between two people metaphorically depict the distance between an epochal moment and them....

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most venerated underground filmmaker. On the other, the Frankfurt School dialectics of Alexander Kluge, self-proclaimed arri...

Khavn has produced an atmospheric and stirring video for the song “Dead Woman in My House” by Los Chupacabras, a Manila-based band, who where formed in 2003 and disbanded in 2008....

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....

A man reading on the street....

"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...

A diary film by Khavn....

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror film. The smell of nitrate in the morning. How many ghosts can the cinema contain? 75 films. 22 years. ...

Short superhero film....

Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. Stanislavsky encouraged actors to develop their ability to observe emotional reactions in their daily lives...

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 baron...

A man fantasizes about horses and sleeps with a woman....