Born 1973 in Mondomanila, Khavn (pronounced ka-vin) means 'prophet of peace' in 13th century pre-hispanic Filipino. He is a prolific, eclectic filmmaker, writer, and composer. He made his first film in 1994 and has made more than 365 films (50+ features, 300+ shorts), ranging from the grotesque to the romantic to the surreal and meditative, playing with different registers, modes, styles, attitudes, exploring the human psyche like a visitor from another planet. From 2002 to 2011, he was the festival director and programmer for .MOV, the first digital film festival in the Philippines.
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
Synopsis
Lino Brocka received posthumously the National Artist Award—the highest honour given by the Philippine government—in 1997, six years after his death at 52. But he considered himself an ultimate anarchist. His tirades serve as intertitles. Images, sounds, and music culled from his sixty-plus features. The ultimate homage and deconstruction of the man and his oeuvre.
'Lino Brocka is dead! Long live The Brockas!' - Khavn DE LA CRUZ
Festivals & Awards
2023 IFF Rotterdam
2023 Doclisboa
Director's Profile
Khavn
Filmography
2005 The Family That Eats Soil
2006 Bahag Kings
2007 Squatterpunk
2007 Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
2008 Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
2008 Philippine Bliss
2008 The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
2009 Three Days of Darkness
2009 The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro
2010 Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
2011 Son of God
2011 Kommander Kulas: the One and Only Concert of the Amazing Combo of Kommander Kulas and His Poor But Very Colorful Carabao in the Long and Unwinding Road of Kamias
2012 Mondomanila: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey
2013 Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
2014 Ruined Heart
2014 Edsa XXX
2015 Desaparadiso
2016 Simulacrum Tremendum
2016 Alipato: the Very Brief Life of an Ember
2018 Happy Lamento
2018 Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
2018 Bamboo Dogs
2020 Orphea
2021 Love Is a Dog from Hell
2023 Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023 National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
Credit
Producer／Scriptwriter｜Khavn
Editor／Sound｜Francis GUILLERMO
Music｜The Brockas and (brocka’s composers)
Print Source
Kamias Overground｜kamiasroadie@gmail.com