Raya Martin Movies

Kinet's Halloween Omnibus feature.

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 man travelling on the sea.

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...

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

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 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.

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...

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

Impressionistic images from a train ride.

Short film about a girl and a ghost.

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.

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...

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...

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

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...