Khavn
Known For: Directing
Biography
Khavn, originally named Khavn de la Cruz, is a very outspoken, experimental filmmaker. He has directed over 100 films, making him one of the most productive filmmakers in the Philippines, and far beyond. He also heads up Kamias Overground, an independent publishing company, and works as a composer, songwriter, pianist and writer. Since 2002, he has been director of the .MOV International Film, Music & Literature Festival. As a jury member, he has been present at multiple festivals, including Berlinale and the Leipzig Film Festival.
Filmography
2026
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod as Self
2025
- Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons ... (Music)
- Bomba Bernal as Self
2024
- Makbetamaximus: Theater of Destruction ... (Director)
- Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge as Father Agaton Damaso
- Much Ado About the Future ... (Director)
- Stanislavski's Gun ... (Director)
2023
- Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) ... (Translator)
- Love Is a Dog from Hell ... (Director)
- National Anarchist: Lino Brocka ... (Producer)
- Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik ... (Director)
2022
- The Devil of Comparisons ... (Director)
- Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937 ... (Director)
- 2Bayani ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Gunam-Gunam x Guni-Guni ... (Producer)
- Orphea ... (Director)
- Skylab ... (Music)
- How To Not Make A Film ... (Director)
2020
- KULOB34 ... (Director)
- Mr. Duck-Egg ... (Director)
2018
- Bamboo Dogs ... (Director)
- Happy Lamento as Self (archive footage)
- This Is Not a Lost Film ... (Director)
- Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon ... (Director)
2017
- Balangiga: Howling Wilderness ... (Screenplay)
- Shock Me Shokoy
- Aswang 1933 ... (Director)
2016
- Filipiniana ... (Director)
- Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
- Simulacrum Tremendum ... (Director)
2015
- Desaparadiso ... (Director)
- An Exploration of Self: No Filter ... (Music)
2014
2013
- Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro ... (Director)
2012
- Solar Syokoy ... (Director)
- EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek ... (Producer)
- Kalakala ... (Director)
- Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore ... (Director)
2011
- Breather ... (Director)
- Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
- Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao ... (Director)
- Kommander Kulas ... (Director)
- Zero ... (Music)
2010
- Mondomanila ... (Music)
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement as Himself
- The Trial of Mr. Serapio ... (Director)
- Son of God ... (Director)
- Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano) ... (Director)
2009
- I Am The Drowning Sea ... (Director)
- The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro ... (Director)
- Pamilya Kariton ... (Director)
- Our Daily Bread ... (Director)
- Namamasko Po ... (Director)
- Literature ... (Director)
2008
- Years When I Was a Child Outside
- Manila in the Fangs of Darkness ... (Director)
- Bahag Kings
- Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero ... (Director)
- The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles ... (Director)
- Philippine Bliss ... (Director)
- Ultimo ... (Director)
- Overdosed Nightmare ... (Director)
2007
- Three Days of Darkness ... (Director)
- Dead Woman in My House ... (Director)
- The Last Gag of Buster Quizon ... (Director)
- By The Suez Canal ... (Director)
- The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One ... (Director)
- The Longest Moment You're Not Here ... (Director)
- Squatterpunk ... (Director)
- Kristo ... (Director)
- Toxic Mango ... (Director)
2006
- Todo Todo Teros ... (Music)
- Goodbye My Shooting Star as K.
- Vampire of Quezon City ... (Director)
- Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World ... (Director)
- Old East Side ... (Director)
- Buryong ... (Director)
- Rugby Boyz ... (Director)
2005
- Three Days Of Darkness Zero ... (Director)
- Last Take, Last Shot
- A Short Film About the Indio Nacional ... (Music)
- The Family That Eats Soil as Dead Man on TV
- Can & Slippers ... (Director)
- Idol: Hero/Villain ... (Director)
- Small Ali ... (Director)
2004
- Headless ... (Director)
- Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata ... (Director)
2003
- Barong Brothers ... (Director)
2001
- Greaseman ... (Director)
2000
- The Twelve ... (Director)
1999
- Kamias: Memory of Forgetting ... (Director)
1998
- Amen ... (Director)
1997
- 1/4 Day In A Life ... (Director)
1996
- Memory of Dawn ... (Director)