Movies: Alexander Kluge

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers....

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples taken from 200 television reportage programmes. "One must take that which is of significance outside...

Film by Alexander Kluge....

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In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classi...

An opera film by Alexander Kluge...

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circ...

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller agrees with the following quote by Goethe: May God save me from self-awareness! For Müller, it represents a stoic a...

A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery....

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A portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard....

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In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments from the perspective of playwright Heiner Müller’s view on subjectivity. Among other things, they talk about ...

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival....

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to reigning political power. Given his many writings on Frederick the Great, it is not surprising that Müller begi...

A short by Alexander Kluge....

With the painter Gerhard Richter....

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and curious about media, so it’s no wonder that he recently began experimenting with artificial intelligence....

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna....