Khavn Movies

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

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...

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...

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

The first Filipino silent, horror and science fiction movie. From the imagination of Khavn.

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...

An American gets killed by a Filipino. Early version of the later feature film.

To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered...

Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of...

In the Philippines, Lino Brocka is considered a national monument who waged a cinematic battle against corruption and oppression, directing over...

This travel-shockumentary-vampire fiction could well be a disguised ode to the Mondo films of Jacopetti, but with Khavn you never really know. Our...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A man follows a woman through the streets.

The Devil of Comparisons (original title: El Demonio de las Comparaciones), was a 30-hour black & white silent film from 1929 by Narding Salome...

Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed....

Mythological love story by Filipino multi-talent Khavn De La Cruz. Kommander Kulas has a restless night, in which he dreams that he is a giant...

An exhibition by Khavn feat. Babel Gun.