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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The Back 80
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
The Tea Coffee Experiment
Farewell until a free Kosova
The Lucifer Effect
Area 51: The Alien Interview
Mimaroğlu Remix Project
Kult - Legendary Rock
Every Wall is a Door
I Remember Nothing
State of Bacon
The Devil and Father Amorth
The Tree That Remembers
Rewind
A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)
Por Diabos
The Kiamichi Beast Expedition
Bloodline
The Hardest Hour