THE FAMILY THAT EATS SOIL
Dir. Khavn, 2005
The Philippines. 75 min
In Tagalog and Spanish with English subtitles

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24- 10 PM

“Soil again? Soil for breakfast, soil for lunch, soil for dinner. Even for snacks. Don’t tell me we’ll be having soil on my first birthday.”

An iconoclastic take-down of the Filipino family unit delivered in a spasm of manic gonzo energy, THE FAMILY THAT EATS SOIL is so vicious in its satire that at one point even the subtitles stop translating what characters are saying and start making fun of them instead. Based on Khavn’s prose poem of the same name, the titular family is just your average middle class five person unit – Dad sneaks into the hospital and turns cancerous children into vegetables, Mom hosts a reality show where she tours brothels and drug dens, Sis can’t stop thinking of rape, Bro tortures immigrants, and Baby smokes cigarettes and frequents cock fights.

“A hyper-condensed punk-trash take on Phillipine family politics. At times it plays like a de-Pasoliniized version of Takashi Miike’s Visitor Q, at others like an absurdist experimental Bomba flick. Yet it always feels like cinema is about to end and only no-holds-barred videomaking can save the world.” — Olaf Moeller, Film Comment

Screening with:

GREASEMAN
Dir. Khavn, 2002
The Philippines. 13 min
In Tagalog with English subtitles

PORNOMAN
Dir. Khavn
The Philippines. 3 min
In Tagalog with English subtitles

THE PUSHCART FAMILY
Dir. Khavn
The Philippines. 4 min
In Tagalog with English subtitles