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DAY TINGNGA TI MISTERYO TI KRISTO NEGRO
THE MIDDLE MYSTERY OF CHRISTO NEGRO
 KHAVN | Phillipines 2009 | 70 min.
Material: DV
Format: MiniDV
Original language: Tagalog
Script: Khavn De La Cruz
Camera: Albert Banzon
Sound: Lawrence S. Ang
Editing: Lawrence S. Ang
With Macoy Duran, Mary Tamayo, Kat Sandoval
Production: Khavn De La Cruz
Print/Sales: Filmless Films
www.khavndelacruz.com
German Premiere
Not everyone can cope with it, but the film opens with what should be an age-old ritual. Several men slaughter and skin an animal in the open field. It's a young water buffalo that continues to breathe when it hardly has any skin left. The landscape has a biblical appeal and the people are dressed in timeless garb. Less timeless are the Roman legionaries who appear and disappear. A Christ-like figure is left on his own in the empty landscape and starts dragging the carcass of the water buffalo as if it were his cross. He seems to carry all his sins through a hellish landscape that looks as if it were designed in a feverish dream. – Gertjan Zuilhof, International Film Festival Rotterdam
For a few years now, Philippines had its own answer to the Dogma manifesto. It was called Filmless Films. Its leader is KHAVN. He has been tireless in organising events, screening showcases and festivals to promote Filipino digital cinema. Filipino digital cinema has come of age. – Olaf Möller, Film Comment
KHAVN, born in 1973 in Manila, Phillipines. Filmmaker, poet, author, composer and enfant terrible of the New Filipino Wave. With about 23 feature films plus more than 60 short films he is the most productive director of this so called filippino digital generation. Since 2002 he is the programming director of MOV digital film festival in Manila. He sings and composes for the piano band "Delakrus" and is part of the Lino Brocka tribute band "The Brockas" together with, among others, Lav Diaz.
Films (selection): Squatterpunk 2007 (UNDERDOX 02) | Ultimo 2007 (UNDERDOX 02) | The Muzzled Horse Of An Engineer In Search Of Mechanical Saddles 2008 | Philippine Bliss 2008 (UNDERDOX 03) | Three Days of Darkness 2008 | Manila in the Fangs of Darkness 2008 | The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro 2009
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