Happy Lamento

On the one hand the beyondTropicália 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 selfproclaimed arrièreguard 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 Fassbinderregular Peter Berling theatre genius Heiner Müller and DaDaisms last man standing Helge Schneider among others with some of the more outrageous scenes from Khavns 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