Raya Martin

Four cinephiles in a hotel room in the middle of the night ruminate on La última película, Dennis Hopper, and the state of cinema.

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

August 11th 2011 was one of the best days of my life: I had a trip with my father to Locarno, where I met and interviewed Raya Martin, a director I...

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in...

A nursery rhyme hovers over shadowy fragments of time, of arrivals and departures and the illusion of passage they evoke.

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic...

Raya Martin's award-winning short film Bakasyon is about a young girl who goes to the province to take care of her grandma, where she discovers...

Mix-mastering history, the paranoid thriller, the documentary and the landscape film, pic tells of very different fates for two sets of brothers in...

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic...

Mix-mastering history, the paranoid thriller, the documentary and the landscape film, pic tells of very different fates for two sets of brothers in...

In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside...

In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside...

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet...

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet...

A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug...

A man travelling on the sea.

Impressionistic images from a train ride.

Mother gets a visit.

A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War...

Martin travels to Itbayat island, of the Batan group, on the far north of the Phillipines, to record the customs of its inhabitants and their life...

Martin travels to Itbayat island, of the Batan group, on the far north of the Phillipines, to record the customs of its inhabitants and their life...

Martin travels to Itbayat island, of the Batan group, on the far north of the Phillipines, to record the customs of its inhabitants and their life...

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest...

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest...

A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father...

A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father...

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

Short film by Raya Martin, published as part of After Cinema Words, a project considering the work of director Carlos Reygadas, here responding to a...

A collaboration film by Raya Martin and Jim Lumbera. Shot on Super 8mm.

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply...

A one-sided romance, from the gazer (JK Anicoche) and the subject of his gaze (Abner Delina), a sleeping man wearing a coat and a top hat.

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply...

Garbiñe Ortega, Artistic Director of Punto de Vista, came up with the idea of creating a collective audiovisual project in which several...

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic...

Short film about a girl and a ghost.

Short film about a girl and a ghost.

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

A narrative about being stuck in a strange mystical island. It's a landscape that's at once familiar, aggressive, drifting, odd and unexpected.

A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.

Kinet's Halloween Omnibus feature.

It is deep autumn — I wonder I never thought I'd be lost and searching for one warm, friendly smile — but I got me some people and I...

The EDSA revolution brought an alt to a new form of experimental cinema that was emerging during the Marcos regime. This is a recovered excerpt from...

Raya Martin loves old silent films and knows better than anyone how to use old moods and techniques in his own films. You could say that he loves...

Raya Martin loves old silent films and knows better than anyone how to use old moods and techniques in his own films. You could say that he loves...

The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty....

A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a...

A nursery rhyme hovers over shadowy fragments of time, of arrivals and departures and the illusion of passage they evoke.

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply...

Tracing the figure of the spirit through Philippine film, Raya Martin enlists archives, apps and AI to work against the colonial gaze, and wonders,...