Movies: Alexander Kluge

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his current production and the nearness to death that has been brought by his illness....

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death took place in a trench.” Müller begins the interview by narrating how he prepared himself, both mentally an...

His prose text "An Attempt at Love", published in 1962, can be classified in the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials and deals with the attempt by the camp supervisors to manipulate two imprisoned Jews to engage in sexual intercourse in order to test ...

A short film by Alexander Kluge....

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an irresistible state of dissolution at the beginning and end of all things and living things....

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals"....

A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard....

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a r...

In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal spiritual diversity. Alexander Kluge's usual sparsely illustrated (television) essay film consists m...

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an indiscretion towards the dead. In his view, smoking is a means of practicing stoicism: "Whoever smokes looks co...

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried Stroh provide a multifaceted insight in the far-away world of Ancient Rome. The conversation with Müller re...

A short by Alexander Kluge....

A short by Alexander Kluge....

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution....

The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a constant potential for force in the world. Müller and Kluge examine this mythical conception of life ...

"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so much" (Gertrude Stein) - Müller explicates these functions of figurative language with reference to the use of...

Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte....

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to br...

In a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever... could Deutschland be. Heiner Müller answered: “just a pretty woman”....

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge short....