Khavn feat. Babel Gun

Berliner Schule: Bad Movies for Bad People is Khavn with Katch23 and 1delacruz going full-throttle apocalyptic on your brain, reducing world cinema to delightful wreckage. Forget homage—this is sabotage. Bollywood, Extreme Japanese, and Korean New Wave movie posters are slashed, smeared, and reassembled into 24 defiant anti-monuments that burn the colonized gaze to ash with fire and glue. It’s a battlefield, not a shrine. Video installations flicker like fever dreams, terracotta figures slither like fractured mementos, and jagged cardboard sculptures loom like ruins of World War 3. Childhood anarchy meets postcolonial critique in a fevered dance where cinema’s relics mutate into wild, ungovernable beasts. This isn’t art—it’s a stupid warzone.

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Khavn

Katch23

1delacruz

aka Babel Gun (the uncollective of scorched earth, sonic chaos, & cinematic carnage)

English language.

About Khavn:
Khavn, known as the father of Philippine Digital Filmmaking, is a prolific filmmaker, writer, and musician. He has directed over 300 short films and 50-plus features including collaborations with Alexander Kluge: “Happy Lamento” (Venice) and “Orphea” (Berlinale). His films are loud rejections of the passivity imposed by resource deprivation in the Philippines, and agitate against the erasure of the Filipino margins. 

Khavn has served as juror in Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, CPH:DOX, Jeonju, BiFan, Jihlava, and many other festivals. His works have been showcased in Rotterdam, Viennale, the Venice Film Festival, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Berlinale, MoMA, MAXXI, Guggenheim, Tate, National Museum of Singapore, and Museo Reina Sofia. He has lectured at institutions such as the Jihlava Academy, Béla Tarr’s Film Factory, Goethe-Institut, and the Danish Film Institute. He curated the Lino Brocka Retrospective at the Viennale in 2009 and the Philippine No Wave programs at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 and the Sharjah Biennial in 2013. 

In 2002, Khavn started .MOV, the first digital film festival in the Philippines and established curatorial exchanges that promoted Philippine cinema to the world.  He published “Philippine No Wave: This is not a film movement,” Roxlee’s graphic novel “Planet of the Noses,” Norman Wilwayco’s novel “Mondomanila,” and the poetry & fiction zine “Huwan Potoc.” Khavn is also an author with 15 books of poetry and fiction, including the novel “Antimarcos,” which won the Palanca Grand Prize.

Foto: Khavn