Khavn De La Cruz is a poet, pianist, visual artist, and Father of Philippine Digital Filmmaking—has made 52 features and 115 short films. His films have screened at the MoMA, Guggenheim, Tate, Venice Architecture Biennale. He has presented retrospectives of his films, curated programs on Lino Brocka and the Philippine New Wave for Viennale, Cph:dox, Sharjah Biennale, and Edinburgh; and lectured in various international film festivals. He is the president of the film, music, & publishing label Kamias Overground and festival director of .Mov, the first digital film festival in the Philippines.
Here are his top ten Philippine films, in chronological order.
1. Prinsesa Naranja [Princess Naranja] (1960) — Nemesio E. Caravana
Three Romantic Stories in a great epic as colorful as it is magnificent.
2. Elias, Basilio, & Sisa (1972) — Jun Aristorenas
3. Si Popeye, Atbp. [Popeye, Etc.] (1973) — Ishmael Bernal, Joey Gosiengfiao, Elwood Perez
Si Popeye, atbp (Popeye etc.) is an unofficial Popeye film released in the Philippines in 1973. A live-action film,...
Here are his top ten Philippine films, in chronological order.
1. Prinsesa Naranja [Princess Naranja] (1960) — Nemesio E. Caravana
Three Romantic Stories in a great epic as colorful as it is magnificent.
2. Elias, Basilio, & Sisa (1972) — Jun Aristorenas
3. Si Popeye, Atbp. [Popeye, Etc.] (1973) — Ishmael Bernal, Joey Gosiengfiao, Elwood Perez
Si Popeye, atbp (Popeye etc.) is an unofficial Popeye film released in the Philippines in 1973. A live-action film,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Various colorful images of Manila open Otso (Eight), Elwood Perez's first film since Lupe: A Seaman's Wife and Ssshhh... She Walks by Night ten years ago. Lex (Vince Tanada), a returning Filipino writer who is commissioned by a director to draft a script for an upcoming independent project, gives perspective to the seemingly unconnected displays of Manila's sights. Nothing has changed. The truths of the Manila that he grew up in are still the same truths that Manila grapples with. After a tour of the unchanging metropolis, Lex moves into his home for the next few months, a remarkable apartment building owned by Anita Linda, a local screen goddess. Otso suddenly switches to stark monochrome. Otso is perhaps Perez's most impenetrable film. Perez, however, has always...
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- 9/19/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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