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Khavn De La Cruz’ “Ultimo” Screens at UP Diliman
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Multi-awarded independent filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz will screen his film Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero on June 19, 4PM at the Bulwagang Rizal in UP Diliman.
Ultimo which has received the Valiente Award from La Palma International Film Festival explores Filipino identity and nationhood through scenes from a poetic documentary of Khavn’s meanderings in Spain interspersed with lines from Jose Rizal’s Mi Ultimo Adios.
Shot on location in La Palma, the 90 minute, black-and-white, silent film will have live scoring by Khavn on piano and Junji Lerma of Radioactive Sago Project on guitar.
Ultimo, along with a dance performance from Donna Miranda and Diego Marana plus spokenword poetry from National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera with an art installation from Norberto Roldan back-to-back with Virgilio S. Almario’s lecture entitled “Rizal German Literary Connections” followed by the launch of his latest book Rizal: Nobelista, a collection of critical essays on the literary greatness of the Noli and Fili.