FILMLESS FILMS presents
PAALAM AKING BULALAKAW
(GOODBYE MY SHOOTING STAR)
This is n
FILMLESS FILMS presents
PAALAM AKING BULALAKAW
(GOODBYE MY SHOOTING STAR)
This is not a film by KHAVN
Starring MERYLL SORIANO
K. loves Ana. Then Ana went missing. But now she's back. And so is K. The walk through the old school. The strange encounters. The eye doctor. The rekindled memories. Chance? Or design? What we talk about when we talk about love are the things unsaid. The words that fail. The lovesongs in your head. The poetry between the lines.
Jolina and Squatterpunk have nothing in common and you'd be right to think that but you'd be also be wrong. They have one - - - Khavn. The teleserye mush of "Gusto" comes from the same place as the apocalyptic gorepunk of Three Days Of Darkness. The avantpop filmmaker has a flipside and a hopeless devotion to love and lovesongs. And he wears his secret heart on his sleeve on Paalam Aking Bulalakaw (Goodbye My Shooting Star). Forget John Lloyd & Sara. Spike the senti. Bittersweeten the punch. Love is love and loss and regret and long goodbyes all the things you want to say but can't. And let's walk and talk about love from July 30 to August 5 at Robinsons Galleria Indiesine.
For more information, contact oracafe@rocketmail.com, bien@bannedmoviespilipinas.com or visit www.khavndelacruz.com.
FESTIVALS
42nd Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy
5th La Palma International Digital Film Festival, Spain
CREDITS
Featuring ELMO REDRICO, NELLA SARABIA, & EGAY ROXAS
Translators MIKAEL DE LARA CO & MERV ESPINA
Songs & Poems KHAVN
Guitar Solo JONNY SALVADOR
Sound Engineer ARVIE BARTOLOME
Dialogue by KHAVN & MERYLL SORIANO
Editing RALPH CRISOSTOMO
Cinematographers ALBERT BANZON & KHAVN
Director, Writer, Producer KHAVN DE LA CRUZ
Music & Lyrics by Khavn De La Cruz.
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Running time: 88 minutes.
"Overdosed Nightmare" is Kidl
This is not a film by KHAVN.
Running time: 88 minutes.
"Overdosed Nightmare" is Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" without the perfume, a pure nightmare set in wounded Manila, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus. A gang of rat-munching, homophobic bums kill the night clumsily. Jesus H. Christ gets crucified for the nth time in Dagger Island. A greaseman, the image model for Poverty, bums around the Edsa Revolution anniversary which ousts another corrupt president, Estrada the actor. And Tony D., the shrewd short-fused citizen of the Philippine ghetto, sets his sights on foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America's grandeur at the expense of Third World inequity.
Running time: 80min
CAST AND CREW
MARVIN AGUSTIN as Tony De Instituto
BON REYES as Tony Gooseman
BUCCINO DE OCAMPO as Tony Greaseman
DAVE KAHN as Steve Banners
Directed, Written, & Produced by KHAVN
Based on NORMAN WILWAYCO's Institute Of Poets
Edited by LAWRENCE S. ANG (with Genghis Jimenez)
Cinematography by ALBERT BANZON, ALMA DELA PENA, KHAVN
Additional Footage by RAUL FUNILAS
Music by KHAVN, TENGAL, ARVIE BARTOLOME, ASCARIS, AUTOCEREMONY, BLEND:ER, BLUMS BORRES, CHILDREN OF CATHODE RAY, CONSCRIPT, EAT TAE, ELEMENTO, FOODSHELTER&CLOTHING, INCONNU ICTU, INSOMNIA, NASAL POLICE, POW MARTINEZ, TERESA BARROZO
Production Company: FILMLESS FILMS
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A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. This is not a
A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. This is not a film by Khavn. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From mundane chores, to work, to scenes of domesticity, to killing time, we are asked to observe and meditate on these moments.
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Khavn on piano & vox,
JP Hernandez on percussion
& Philip Sagun on bass.
originally b
Khavn on piano & vox,
JP Hernandez on percussion
& Philip Sagun on bass.
originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival
covered by The Ramones
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The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Ara
This is not a film by Khavn.
The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona.
Khavn draws on the Book of Revelation for one of the most frightening phenomenon prophesied to happen. Three girls are trapped in their home as the Three Days of Darkness descend on the Earth and they must cope and try to fend off the demons that have come to take them. A chilling vision of God's Wrath or of people imposing God's Wrath on one another, the film frightens with its questions as much as it does with its visuals.
Starring LIZA DINO, SHEREEN LADERA, & MIKA ONO
Also Starring HIDEO NOGUCHI, JIM LIBIRAN, EARL DRILON
Directed, Written, Shot, & Produced by KHAVN
Music, Sound Design, & Production Design by TENGAL
Edited by CARMEN ALMEDA
Additional Sound Work by ARVIE BARTOLOME
Translation by MERV ESPINA, MIKA ONO & MERYLL SORIANO
Production Company: FILMLESS FILMS
International Title: THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS ZERO
Original Title: Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman Zero
Language: Filipino, English, Japanese
Genre: Horror
With English subtitles
Approx. running time: 75minutes
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World Premiere: Jihlava International Documentary Film Fes
This is not a film by KHAVN.
World Premiere: Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2006
Original Title: Kamias: Alaala Ng Paglimot
Kamias is a green sour fruit. It is also the road where I live. This is what the video camera remembers. My amnesia lies in between.
"Kamias" weaves images of the artist's family and personal life with a strong, if not sad, narrative thread. Khavn gives us images of the day that transpired: his mother preparing merienda, his sister playing with her infant son, his brother-in-law and himself picking up his sister from school. His reminiscences take him well into the dawn, when he finds it difficult to sleep. In concise, poetic narration, Khavn takes us deep into the psyche of a young artist. The images shift quickly, like someone whose gaze flutters from one interesting item to another. The language is direct without being hip-smart, simple without being droll. This approach gives the film the quality of a dream. (Vincenz Serrano)
A collection of vignettes that Khavn spliced together into a full-length feature that he named Kamias, after the road in Quezon City where his family lives. There are moments of great poignancy, as when his family is forced to give up their backyard to utility men encroaching on behalf of the electric company. The typical chaos of Quezon City — the harsh daylight, the heavy traffic and the endless drilling on the streets — is accompanied by Filipino poetry as recited by its author, Khavn, like the ghost of a failed suitor lamenting the deformed true love that is his neighborhood. (Ricky Torre)
Kamias is a green, tart fruit that grows in Southeast Asia. The oxalates it contains can bring on fits in some people or brain disorders that in extreme cases may lead to death. Kamias Road is in Quezon City, where the director Khavn lives, and where camera-in-hand, he rebels against the fading image.
The legacy of Mekas' lyrical film memoirs hovers over the family scenes. The quick shots present life in a home in the suburbs and simultaneously come together in a kind of hallucinated reality to compose a portrait of the artist.
The ideal camera should have a direct connection to the mind so that it is capable of recording everything we have seen, says the director, and in a strange state of mind, between consciousness and sleep, he attempts to create a film out of registered images, which lodge themselves deep in the memory and are said to be re-evoked by approaching death, so that they can flash the life of the dying person before his/her eyes.
The spontaneous images of the subconscious emerge out of the initial indeterminacy of the moments captured: capture everything that you see and that shapes your mind! Such images also point to the potential of digital cinematography, with its adaptability, intimacy, and accessibility, making it an ideal artistic tool.
However, technology itself does not drive a film, it can only be an intermediate space, preserving what is seen until the creative impulse transforms its latent presence into a work of art. (Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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World Premiere: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005
This is not a film by KHAVN.
World Premiere: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005
Original Title: Ang Pamilyang Kumakain Ng Lupa
"The Family That Eats Soil" seeks to paint a dystopian portrait, a phantasmagoric reversal of Filipino values. It is an allegory for a people still walking and breathing under an unending nightmare.
A crisp, 75-minute hyper-condensed punk-trash take on Philippine family politics. At times it plays like a de-Pasolinized version of Takashi Miike's Visitor Q, at others like an absurdist experimental bomba flick. Yet it always feels as if cinema is about to end and only no-holds-barred videomaking can save the world. (Film Comment)
Displays clear traces of furious improvisations and a nonchalant provocative manner. (Rotterdam International Film Festival)
A very violent & provocative film. Downright bizarre. Involves cockfighting, prostitution, midgets, skull-crushing and plots to kill babies. (Montreal Festival Of New Cinema)
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World Premiere: Berlin International Film Festivao, Berlin
This is not a film by KHAVN.
World Premiere: Berlin International Film Festivao, Berlinale Forum, 2008
"The Muzzled Horse Of An Engineer In Search Of Mechanical Saddles" lays out the psychoscape of an employee recently laid off from work, whose unexplained fixation on horses jumpstarts a four-part narrative fraught with anxiety and a surreal sense of mission: subduing his intangible horses by ironically setting them loose. The film horses around with the many significations horses as cultural signifiers have come to accumulate, especially in the Philippines, whether as monster or icon of virility.
Running time: 75min
CAST & CREW
IAN LOMONGO as The Engineer
MICHELLE SIA as The Whore
Directed & Produced by KHAVN
Story by ALVIN YAPAN & KHAVN
Monologue by ANGELO V. SUAREZ
Music by ROXLEE
Edited by LAWRENCE S. ANG
Cinematography by ALBERT BANZON
Production Team: VANESSA VALENCIA, KERCHLYNN TAN, EMERALD HIDALGO, RENEI DIMLA, CHARENA THERESSA LOPEZ ESCALA, & HEDJI CALAGUI
Production Company: FILMLESS FILMS
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World Premiere: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008
This is not a film by KHAVN.
World Premiere: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008
Synopsis:
"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law era. These people, whose names allude to familiar characters from Jose Rizal's novels, narrate their private yet vivid stories of loss, longing, and Third World despair, all intersecting in a public arena that is their packed community. Theirs are lives seen with an oftentimes comic eye, unabashedly bound by a wild and brimming sense of Filipino hope.
Running time: 70min
Cast & Crew:
NEIL ELPUSAN as Simon Crisostomo
REINIER LUCIEN as Elias
JV KATIPUNAN as Tasyo
MENK CRUZAT as Sisa
THERESE CARLOS as Maria
LARA TARRANCO as Clara
DAMASO as Itself
JP HERNANDEZ as the djembe player
ATOY REYES JR. as the steel trader
PEDRING X. SANTOS as the junkyard dog
NINA DANDAN as client 1
CHERISH BRILLON as client 2
ENUH IGLESIAS as client 3
Directed, Written, & Produced by KHAVN
Editing & Sound Design by LAWRENCE S. ANG
Cinematography by ALBERT BANZON
Music by RIA MUNOZ
Songs by REYCARD DUET, LARRY MIRANDA , RUBEN TAGALOG, & SYLVIA LA TORRE
English Subtitles Written by JOEL TOLEDO
Sound Recording by JONATHAN BATOY
Production Management by BANNED MOVIES PILIPINAS
Casting by CHERISH AILEEN BRILLON
Catering by ANNA CHRISTINA IGLESIAS
Stills by ANNA CARINA DANDAN
Production Assistance by EDGAR FONZ
Production Company: FILMLESS FILMS
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