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
- Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge as Father Agaton Damaso
- Makbetamaximus ... (Director)
- 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)
- National Anarchist: Lino Brocka ... (Producer)
- Love Is a Dog from Hell ... (Director)
- Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik ... (Director)
2022
- 2Bayani ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Devil of Comparisons ... (Director)
- Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937 ... (Director)
2021
- Skylab ... (Music)
- Orphea ... (Director)
- Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni ... (Producer)
- How To Not Make A Film ... (Director)
2020
- KULOB34 ... (Director)
- Mr. Duck-Egg ... (Director)
2018
- Bamboo Dogs ... (Director)
- This Is Not a Lost Film ... (Director)
- Happy Lamento as Self (archive footage)
- Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon ... (Director)
2017
- Balangiga: Howling Wilderness ... (Screenplay)
- Shock Me Shokoy
- Aswang 1933 ... (Director)
2016
- Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
- Filipiniana ... (Director)
- Simulacrum Tremendum ... (Director)
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)
- Kalakala ... (Director)
- Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore ... (Director)
2011
- Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
- Zero ... (Music)
- Breather ... (Director)
- Kommander Kulas ... (Director)
- Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao ... (Director)
2010
- Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement as Himself
- Son of God ... (Director)
- Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay ... (Music)
- The Trial of Mr. Serapio ... (Director)
- Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano) ... (Director)
2009
- The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO ... (Director)
- Pamilya Kariton ... (Director)
- I Am The Drowning Sea ... (Director)
- Literature ... (Director)
- Namamasko Po ... (Director)
- Our Daily Bread ... (Director)
2008
- Ultimo ... (Director)
- Years When I Was a Child Outside
- Bahag Kings
- Overdosed Nightmare ... (Director)
- Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero ... (Director)
- Manila in the Fangs of Darkness ... (Director)
- Philippine Bliss ... (Director)
- The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles ... (Director)
2007
- Three Days of Darkness ... (Director)
- Squatterpunk ... (Director)
- Dead Woman in My House ... (Director)
- The Longest Moment You're Not Here ... (Director)
- Toxic Mango ... (Director)
- By The Suez Canal ... (Director)
- The Last Gag of Buster Quizon ... (Director)
- The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One ... (Director)
- Kristo ... (Director)
2006
- Todo Todo Teros ... (Music)
- Vampire of Quezon City ... (Director)
- Buryong ... (Director)
- Goodbye My Shooting Star as K.
- Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World ... (Director)
- Rugby Boyz ... (Director)
- Old East Side ... (Director)
2005
- The Family That Eats Soil as Dead Man on TV
- Last Take, Last Shot
- A Short Film About the Indio Nacional ... (Music)
- Three Days Of Darkness Zero ... (Director)
- Idol: Hero/Villain ... (Director)
- Can & Slippers ... (Director)
- Small Ali ... (Director)
2004
- Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata ... (Director)
- Headless ... (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)