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Headless
What makes a man castrate himself? With colleague director Lav Diaz in the role of the bleeding man.Published on: -
Barong Brothers
An improvised homage to the great silent slapstick tradition in which two brothers want each other’s blood.Published on: -
Demons
Original combination of romantic melodrama and realistic indictment of political abuse from the Marcos era with style attributes from the horror and fPublished on: -
Mondomanila
Mondo Cane is the legendary and cruel shockumentary by Gualtiero Jacopetti. Khavn sees his own Mondo in Manila. Jacopetti was an outsider; Khavn is aPublished on: -
Ex Press
Made on a modest budget, but with an immodest cinematographic eye. Fiction and fact are mixed as in a dream. A dream about trains and…Published on: -
Boxing in the Philippine Islands
Actually a type of shadowboxing. The film looks old, but the maker shot it using a simple pinhole camera. Screened before Buenas noches, España.Published on: -
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
As no other filmmaker, Lav Diaz is involved with the suffering of the people of the Philippines, with its history of colonialism, corruption and poverPublished on: -
Buenas noches, España
A road movie, but certainly not an ordinary one. A boy and a girl travel through Spain, but they also seem to travel through a…Published on: -
Century of Birthing
A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion…Published on: