Âmes de fous
A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
Now here is a meeting of cinema minds and concepts probably nobody had ever thought about! On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines' internationally most venerated underground filmmaker – an IFFR regular always easy to spot due to his exalted sense of style. 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. Expect the unexpected!
IFFR 2019
- 90'
- Germany
- 2018
- Director
- Alexander Kluge
- Countries of production
- Germany, Philippines
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 90'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- German
- Producers
- Stephan Holl / Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH, Alexander Kluge / KAIROSFILM
- Production Companies
- Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH, KAIROSFILM
- Sales
- Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH
- Cinematography
- Thomas Willke, Albert Banzon, Thomas Mauch, Erich Harandt
- Editor
- Andreas Kern, Stephan Holl, Kajetan Forstner, Roland Forstner
- Sound Design
- Michael Kurz, Stephan Holl
- Music
- Khavn de la Cruz
- Cast
- Helge Schneider, Heiner Müller, Galina Antoschewskaja, Peter Berling
- Director
- Alexander Kluge
- Countries of production
- Germany, Philippines
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 90'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- German
- Producers
- Stephan Holl / Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH, Alexander Kluge / KAIROSFILM
- Production Companies
- Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH, KAIROSFILM
- Sales
- Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH
- Cinematography
- Thomas Willke, Albert Banzon, Thomas Mauch, Erich Harandt
- Editor
- Andreas Kern, Stephan Holl, Kajetan Forstner, Roland Forstner
- Sound Design
- Michael Kurz, Stephan Holl
- Music
- Khavn de la Cruz
- Cast
- Helge Schneider, Heiner Müller, Galina Antoschewskaja, Peter Berling
Programme IFFR 2019
Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
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Japan
IFFR 2019