[⏵] ESSAY The second collaboration between Kluge and Khavn is an aesthetic mash-up – with a wonderful accomplice in Lilith Stangenberg. While in Happy Lamento (FILMFEST HAMBURG 2018) these two exceptional auteurs used material from their archives, Orphea has new content – albeit with a classical source. The portents and endings of Orpheus and Euridyce have changed: with Khavn and Kluge it’s an Orphea who descends to the underworld, not only to liberate her Euridyco, but the whole of extinct humanity. Between Kluge’s green screen studio and the megacity Manila everything is on the table: Rilke and Adorno, Tchaikovsky and rock, mammoths and immortality.

Website: https://rapideyemovies.de/2020/02/13/orphea-2/

Original title: Orphea

Film type: Hybrid

Original language: German, English, Tagalog

Section: Asia Express

Language and subtitles: OV with German subtitles

Director: Alexander Kluge, Khavn de la Cruz

Screenplay: Alexander Kluge, Khavn de la Cruz, Douglas Candano

Cast: Lilith Stangenberg, Ian Madrigal

Producer: Alexander Kluge, Stephan Holl, Antoinette Köster

Director of Photography: Thomas Wilke, Albert Banzon, Gym Lumbera

 

Performances:

Sunday, 27th of Sep. – 19:00 hrs Metropolis

Wendesday, 30th of Sep. – 21:15 hrs Abaton