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
- Bomba Bernal as Self
- Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons ... (Music)
2024
- Makbetamaximus ... (Director)
- Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge as Father Agaton Damaso
- Stanislavski's Gun ... (Director)
- Much Ado About the Future ... (Director)
2023
- Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) ... (Translator)
- Love Is a Dog from Hell ... (Director)
- Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik ... (Director)
- National Anarchist: Lino Brocka ... (Producer)
2022
- 2Bayani ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937 ... (Director)
- The Devil of Comparisons ... (Director)
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
- Simulacrum Tremendum ... (Director)
- Filipiniana ... (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 ... (Producer)
- Solar Syokoy ... (Director)
- Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore ... (Director)
- Kalakala ... (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: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay ... (Music)
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement as Himself
- Son of God ... (Director)
- Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano) ... (Director)
- The Trial of Mr. Serapio ... (Director)
2009
- I Am The Drowning Sea ... (Director)
- Literature ... (Director)
- Namamasko Po ... (Director)
- The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO ... (Director)
- Pamilya Kariton ... (Director)
- Our Daily Bread ... (Director)
2008
- Years When I Was a Child Outside
- Manila in the Fangs of Darkness ... (Director)
- Overdosed Nightmare ... (Director)
- Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero ... (Director)
- Philippine Bliss ... (Director)
- Ultimo ... (Director)
- Bahag Kings
- The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles ... (Director)
2007
- Three Days of Darkness ... (Director)
- Squatterpunk ... (Director)
- The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One ... (Director)
- By The Suez Canal ... (Director)
- The Longest Moment You're Not Here ... (Director)
- Toxic Mango ... (Director)
- Kristo ... (Director)
- Dead Woman in My House ... (Director)
- The Last Gag of Buster Quizon ... (Director)
2006
- Goodbye My Shooting Star as K.
- Todo Todo Teros ... (Music)
- Old East Side ... (Director)
- Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World ... (Director)
- Buryong ... (Director)
- Vampire of Quezon City ... (Director)
- Rugby Boyz ... (Director)
2005
- Three Days Of Darkness Zero ... (Director)
- The Family That Eats Soil as Dead Man on TV
- A Short Film About the Indio Nacional ... (Music)
- Last Take, Last Shot
- Can & Slippers ... (Director)
- Small Ali ... (Director)
- Idol: Hero/Villain ... (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)