Happy Lamento
Overview
On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most venerated underground filmmaker. On the other, the Frankfurt School dialectics of Alexander Kluge, self-proclaimed arrière-guard eternal of 1960s modernist moviedom, Gandalf of all essay cinema. For Happy Lamento, Kluge mixed some of his weirder TV skits on electricity, the circus, revolution and early cinema (featuring Fassbinder-regular Peter Berling, theatre genius Heiner Müller, and DaDaism’s last man standing, Helge Schneider, among others) with some of the more outrageous scenes from Khavn’s 2016 Ang Napakaigsing Buhay Ng Alipato. Some 2017 G20 shots of Merkel and Trump et al inject the already heady brew with current affairs urgency.
Release date
11/09/2018
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Original Soundtrack
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Real Fake Streets
The Canadian Conspiracy
Lane Woods Finds Love
The Wild Blue Yonder
The Lester Film
State of Bacon
The Lucifer Effect
Slaughter (Besmel)
When the Water Stops Flowing
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea
The Hamleigh Disappearances
1976: Search for Life
Dark Side of the Moon
La caravane du cafard
Silvered Water
Every Wall is a Door
I Remember Nothing
The Forgotten House
Halloween Home Haunts
The Back 80