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 ... (Director)
- Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge as Father Agaton Damaso
- Stanislavski's Gun ... (Director)
- Much Ado About the Future ... (Director)
2023
- Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik ... (Director)
- Love Is a Dog from Hell ... (Director)
- National Anarchist: Lino Brocka ... (Producer)
- Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) ... (Translator)
2022
- Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937 ... (Director)
- The Devil of Comparisons ... (Director)
- 2Bayani ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni ... (Director)
- Orphea ... (Director)
- Skylab ... (Music)
- How To Not Make A Film ... (Cinematography)
2020
- KULOB34 ... (Writer)
- Mr. Duck-Egg ... (Director)
2018
- This Is Not a Lost Film ... (Director)
- Bamboo Dogs ... (Producer)
- Happy Lamento as Self (archive footage)
- Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon ... (Director)
2017
- Balangiga: Howling Wilderness ... (Story)
- Shock Me Shokoy
- Aswang 1933 ... (Director)
2016
- Filipiniana ... (Writer)
- Simulacrum Tremendum ... (Director)
- Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2015
- Desaparadiso ... (Director)
2014
2013
- Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro ... (Director)
2012
- EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek ... (Music)
- Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore ... (Writer)
- Solar Syokoy ... (Director)
- Kalakala ... (Director)
2011
- Breather ... (Producer)
- Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao ... (Writer)
- Zero ... (Music)
- Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
- Kommander Kulas ... (Director)
2010
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement as Himself
- Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano) ... (Writer)
- Son of God ... (Writer)
- Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay ... (Music)
- The Trial of Mr. Serapio ... (Director)
2009
- Pamilya Kariton ... (Director)
- Namamasko Po ... (Director)
- Literature ... (Director)
- Our Daily Bread ... (Director)
- I Am The Drowning Sea ... (Director)
- The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO ... (Director)
2008
- Ultimo ... (Director)
- Years When I Was a Child Outside
- Manila in the Fangs of Darkness ... (Writer)
- Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero ... (Writer)
- Bahag Kings
- Philippine Bliss ... (Director)
- Overdosed Nightmare ... (Director)
- The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles ... (Writer)
2007
- Dead Woman in My House ... (Director)
- Three Days of Darkness ... (Director)
- Kristo ... (Director)
- Squatterpunk ... (Director)
- Toxic Mango ... (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 Last Gag of Buster Quizon ... (Director)
- The Longest Moment You're Not Here ... (Director)
2006
- Old East Side ... (Writer)
- Vampire of Quezon City ... (Director)
- Todo Todo Teros ... (Music)
- Rugby Boyz ... (Director)
- Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World ... (Director)
- Goodbye My Shooting Star as K.
- Buryong ... (Director)
2005
- Three Days Of Darkness Zero ... (Director)
- The Family That Eats Soil as Dead Man on TV
- Can & Slippers ... (Writer)
- Idol: Hero/Villain ... (Director)
- Small Ali ... (Director)
- A Short Film About the Indio Nacional ... (Music)
- Last Take, Last Shot
2004
- Headless ... (Writer)
- Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata ... (Writer)
2003
- Barong Brothers ... (Director)
2001
- Greaseman ... (Writer)
2000
- The Twelve ... (Director)
1999
- Kamias: Memory of Forgetting ... (Director)
1998
- Amen ... (Writer)
1997
- 1/4 Day In A Life ... (Director)
1996
- Memory of Dawn ... (Director)