Ang pamilyang kumakain ng lupa (The Family That Eats Soil)
Khavn, PH 2005Screenplay, Music: Khavn; Cinematography: Albert Banzon; Editing: Sunshine Matutina; Cast: Hamid Eton, Elisabeth Marin, Gil Mendoza, Hazel Magno, Edward Vitto, Carlo Catap. DCP, color and b/w, 75 min. Tagalog with English subtitles
Preceded by:
Alaala Ng Madaling-Araw (Memory of Postmidnight) Khavn. PH, 1996, DCP, color, 8 min. Tagalog with English subtitles
Kukunin Na Ng Meralco Ang Likod Namin (The Electric Company's Gonna Get Our Backyard) Khavn. PH, 1997, DCP, color, 10 min. Tagalog with English subtitles
We end our retrospective with the film that started it all. The Family that Eats Soil might not be Khavn's first feature film, but it was the first one to be screened at a major international film festival (Rotterdam), where Khavn's unique experimental punk vision of the world was catapulted to global underground fame. The Family that Eats Soil is an angry, surreal subversion of everything considered sacred in (not only Filipino) society. It is a film so chock-full of provocation and violence that it makes similar deconstructions of family values like Pasolini's Teorema or Takashi Miike's Visitor Q look like Disney films in comparison. Khavn: "Been mulling over this story since '97. Shot the film in 2004 after Hubert Bals resurrected to invest. My 9th film as Camera d'Or. Always wanted to do a sequel, but never got to. Fuse two short stories and you've got a screenplay." (J.M.)
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