Synopsis : Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. He uses religion and violence to stay in power. What superstition and razzle dazzle don’t accomplish, his goons do. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman, who is headstrong and impulsive, and often gets into trouble. Before long, she falls in love with the henchman, and the star-crossed lovers decide to leave town. Fighting ensues. It is while on the run that they finally get to know each other for the first time…Read More »
Khavn
-
Khavn – Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore AKA Pusong wasak: Isa na namang kwento ng pag-ibig sa pagitan ng kriminal at puta (2014)
2011-2020ArthouseKhavnMusicalPhilippines -
Khavn – IDOL: Bida/Kontrabida AKA IDOL: Hero/Villain (2005)
2001-2010ActionExperimentalKhavnPhilippinesQuote:
One of the best films of 2005. — Paolo BertolinIn the extraordinary film “IDOL”, all aspirations are stunted and all beyonds are ludicrous. The brilliant farce that is “IDOL” is so profoundly pathetic, it is hilarious. Indeed it is so unusual, provocative and at times shattering that a new aesthetic category might be required here. In “IDOL”, Khavn has hit upon a method adequate to the full-of-shitness of the world and a new modality for realism. — Jonathan BellerRead More »
-
Khavn – Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay AKA Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey (2010)
2011-2020ArthouseCultKhavnPhilippinesQuote:
A joyfully outrageous slice of life in the slums set to a punky soundtrack, Mondomanila is a slap in the face of Western expectations of politely miserabilist depictions of the downtrodden. A hyper kinetic, super stylised wild carnival of the destitute, it follows a midget, a one-armed rapper, a ‘day-glo fairy’, a disabled pimp and their friends as they try to get as much sex and drugs as they can (‘the only solution to their problems’, we are told by main character Tony at the beginning) and tackle a racist white paedophile. A toothless showman opens this exuberant bad taste spectacle, promising something horrible and creepy, but the Mondo-style shockumentary aspect is underpinned by the crude reality of life in Manila, making the film vital and energising.Read More » -
Khavn – Ang Pamilyang Kumakain ng Lupa AKA The Family that Eats Soil [+Extras] (2005)
2001-2010ArthouseKhavnPhilippinesQuote:
The Family that Eats Soil is a very outspoken experimental film maker with a prolific rate of production and an uninhibited lust to investigate and cross all frontiers. This film also displays clear traces of furious improvisations and a nonchalant provocative manner. In Filipino society, the family is holy, like the earth, because the society is basically still agrarian. In the bizarre and surrealistic world of The Family That Eats Soil, a strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil. Outside the meal times, the individual family members experience extravagant adventures. Read More » -
Khavn – Squatterpunk (2007)
2001-2010AsianDocumentaryKhavnPhilippinesFilmless Films presents
SQUATTERPUNK
This is not a film by Khavn.An ode to joy amidst poverty, SQUATTERPUNK is the pre-Spanish
Philippine part of Khavn’s “Black Silence Trilogy.” Set in the slums
of Manila, we follow the lives of the youth as they scavenge the
garbage beach for a living while still managing to play around.Read More »