SQUATTERPUNK w/ The Brockas @ Mag:net Katipunan

Cinekatipunan presents

SQUATTERPUNK (Iskwaterpangk)
This is not a film by KHAVN

Grand Jury Prize, Cinemanila International Film
Festival 2006

Venue: MAG:NET CAFE, KATIPUNAN
(in front of Miriam College, beside Rustan's
Supermarket)
AGCOR Building, 335 Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City
Tel: 929.3191 www.magnet.com. ph

December 6, Wednesday, 5:30-9:30pm
SQUATTER FPJ VS. SQUATTER KHAVN
3 decades ago, Fernando Poe Jr made a movie in the
same location (Isla Puting Bato, Tondo, Manila) where
SQUATTERPUNK was shot.
5:30pm FPJ's "Isla Puting Bato" (White Rock Island)
7:30pm The Brothers Quay Shortfilms
8pm Khavn's SQUATTERPUNK with livemusic by THE BROCKAS

December 20, Wednesday, 5:30-9:30pm
CYBERPUNK VS. SQUATTERPUNK
Two Japanese Cyberpunk classics.
5:30pm Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo: The Iron Man"
6:45pm Sogo Ishii's "Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts"
8pm Khavn's SQUATTERPUNK with livemusic by THE BROCKAS

Admission is free.

ABOUT SQUATTERPUNK
"Made by any other filmmaker you would call this film
daring and adventurous. It is shot in the kind of slum
neighbourhood where law enforcement is rare. The film
does not exactly fit in the social awareness policy of
realist and direct cinema documentary filmmaking. The
film is energetic and funny in a place that is
supposed to be depressing. The score of the film is
loud if not deafening. And not en vogue. It brings us
back to the no future eighties of the original
anarchic punk.

But it is consistent in its style of black and white
images and its rhythmic montage that is clearly driven
by the musical sound track. Compared to the ironic
collage way of working in most of Khavn’s other films,
this film is crystal clear if not neat. Well, only in
comparison with his other sometimes exuberant
experiments. By any other standard, it is a wild and
pulsating film.

The film shows something of the life in the slums in a
quite special way. It shows how poor, forgotten and
ignored street children can have a good time. Playing
and swimming in rotting garbage can obviously be fun.
So not the cliche image of tears in a child’s eyes
makes us aware of this disgraceful situation but the
vitality and pleasure of the protagonists. In
addition, maybe even stronger than pity this pleasure
enforces the inevitable message: no future." (Gertjan
Zuilhof, Rotterdam International Film Festival)

"A rollicking ride into the depths of poverty-inspired
despair, with that distinctly Philippine sense of
hope, rising above the regular smell of garbage,
swinging and slamming with joyous riot music. This is
Khavn returning to the bare, essential, and simply
punk." (Joel Toledo)

"Despite the crude, violent, exploitative connotations
of its title, SQUATTERPUNK casts a tenderly poetic eye
at the squalor of Philippine society." (Lourd De
Veyra)

“Pinoy Punk Rock is the music that reflects the lively
and chaotic world of the urban poor in an independent
masterpiece titled SQUATTERPUNK by the internationally
award-winning director Khavn." (Jude Bautista, Manila
Times)

Squatterpunk SYNOPSIS
An ode to joy amidst poverty, SQUATTERPUNK is the
pre-Spanish Philippine part of Khavn's "Black Silence
Trilogy" ("2. Ultimo", "3. The Longest Moment You're
Not Here"). Set in the slums of Manila, we follow the
lives of the youth as they scavenge the garbage beach
for a living while still managing to play around.

Squatterpunk CREDITS
Director, Writer, Producer: Khavn
Editor: Lawrence Ang (with Caloy Carlos & Sunshine
Matutina)
Music: The Brockas, Bobby Balingit, Tengal, Buccino P.
De Ocampo
Cinematographer: Albert Banzon
Assistant Director: Rayg Generoso
Cast: Hapon and the Isla Puting Bato Community
Length: 79 minutes

www.kamiasroad.com/khavn