WORLD PREMIERE: Happy Lamento

ELECTRIC CIRCUS, BLUE MOON, MANILA, 2008, 90 MIN

Introduction and reading by Alexander Kluge

‘Happy Lamento’ in German translates to ‘glückliches Trauerlied’. The feature-length music film features the young master director Khavn de la Cruz from Manila and is a co-production of Kairos Film and Rapid Eye Movies. It's all about the circus, about electricity - but above all about the song Blue Moon, to which Elvis Presley lent his voice. Helge Schneider appears as a light snake man and Heiner Müller philosophizes about the moon.