Khavn de la cruz biography of mahatma
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Khavn
Khavn De La Cruz, or simply Khavn, is not one to appease through decorum. Playing on the edge of cataclysm, his creative practice is prolific and expansive, embracing an inspired and at times unexpected array of mediums and collaborators.
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He grabbed hold of the democratizing possibilities of digital technology that opened the way for a Philippine No Wave at the turn of the millennium and reduced the need to compromise to the demands of industry moneymen. A deluge of low-cost, extravagantly bizarre films resulted (Khavn has made more than fifty features and 200 shorts since the mid-1990s).
His films are loud rejections of the passivity imposed by resource deprivation in the Philippines, and of a mainstream willing to sweep out of view the grisly tyrannies of state and colonial history.
In Mondomanila (2012), a brief onslaught like a punk song, a man behatted like a circus master leads us down into Manila’s nighttime slums, home to a colorful array of tricksters, pimps,