Raya Martin Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Mother gets a visit.

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...

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...

Impressionistic images from a train ride.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...