Raya Martin

Raya Martin to Wes Craven (2022)

Garbiñe Ortega, Artistic Director of Punto de Vista, came up with the idea of creating a collective audiovisual project in which several filmmakers would make a filmed letter addressed to another filmmaker they did not know personally and who was as far a ...

Puppy Love (2022)

Spirit Film (2021)

Tracing the figure of the spirit through Philippine film, Raya Martin enlists archives, apps and AI to work against the colonial gaze, and wonders, amid the restrictions of lockdown, 'how do we watch movies without cinema? ...

Death of Nintendo (2020)

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. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games ...

Some of my Best Friends are Ghosts (2018)

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 know that they love me And I know just where to look this time. "Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I ...

Smaller and Smaller Circles (2017)

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

Shock Me Shokoy (2017)

Aos Sí (2017)

Kinet's Halloween Omnibus feature. ...

Althaea (2017)

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

Excerpt from 'INDEPENDENCIA 86: The Lost Film of Arturo Madlangbayan' (2014)

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 a video experiment by the almost unknown director Arturo Madlangbayan, as re-edited by Miko Revereza and Ra ...

The Last Film (2013)

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

How to Disappear Completely (2013)

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 relishes in alcohol and history. She decides to put on a stage play based on an old Filipino film about a fa ...

Scotch Pilgrim (2013)

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 still image from the 2005 film Battle In Heaven. ...

A Simplistic Altar from a Prohibited Film Scene (2012)

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

Estimated Time of Arrival (2012)

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

The Great Cinema Party (2012)

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 as its foremost attractions. There, they explore the island and retire in a rustic mansion used once to ma ...

Jeonju Digital Project 2012 (2012)

Good Night, Spain (2011)

In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside and meets a lost woman. During the trip, they discover a museum housing the expatriated paintings of the most ...

Breather (2011)

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 personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence ...

Ars colonia (2011)

A man travelling on the sea. ...

Boxing in the Philippine Islands (2011)

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 experimental films and that he manages to revitalise the old techniques. Here he looks at boxers, even though ...

Independencia (2010)

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 life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home. ...

Tales (2010)

Short film about a girl and a ghost. ...

Manila (2009)

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 addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. For the "Night" seg ...

Long Live Philippine Cinema! (2009)

Mother gets a visit. ...

Next Attraction (2008)

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 layered making-of movie. ...

Now Showing (2008)

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 districts with her busy mother and entrepreneurial aunt. Years later, she is still the same girl enamoured with tele ...

Possible Lovers (2008)

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. ...

Autohystoria (2007)

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

Track Projections (2007)

Impressionistic images from a train ride. ...

The Island at the End of the World (2005)

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 away from modern civilization. Itbayat is open to visitors only in the summer; the storms raging in the regio ...

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)

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 and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio ("common man") as he progresses from boy bell ringer ...

The Visit (2004)

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 strange and mysterious things about her lola's identity. The 15-minute film won the Ishmael Bernal Award for You ...

A Short Film About The Last Movie (2013)

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

Estimated Time of Arrival (2012)

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

Separation of the Critic - A Trip with Raya Martin (2012)

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 deeply respect and admire – definitely one of my heroes. My first idea was to produce the classical "aute ...

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement (2010)

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

Years When I Was a Child Outside (2008)

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