Happy Lamento
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.
Happy Lamento
Nouveau Monde
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Utopia
Miss You Can Do It
Sanderson to Brackettville
Endgame: Assisted Suicide and Legislation
Reagan
Ara Malikian: una vida entre las cuerdas
Bloß keine Tochter!
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Thirty Two
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
The One Piece Podcast Goes To Japan
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J'ai décidé de mourir
De Laatste Dagen van Aurelia Brouwers
And Those Who Dance it Surrender Their Hearts to Each Other
