Alexander Kluge Movies

1997
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
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The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...
2020
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
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Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes:...
1995
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
On the Way to a Theater of Darknesses
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The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...
1999
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
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Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...
2018
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib
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Collage film regarding astronomy.
2017
An Opera of the World
An Opera of the World
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In An Opera of the World, Malian scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and...
1973
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908
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Short by Alexander Kluge.
1994
The World is Not Bad, but Full
The World is Not Bad, but Full
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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...
1966
A Poker Game
A Poker Game
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A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)
2007
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
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2020
Werewolves Playoffs
Werewolves Playoffs
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Video #1 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò...
1983
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
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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...
1970
Reform Circus
Reform Circus
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A 1970 TV discussion with Alexander Kluge.
1989
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath
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In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from...
1965
Policeman's Lot
Policeman's Lot
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Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.
2003
A Woman Like a Volcano
A Woman Like a Volcano
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Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma
1995
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”
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Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...
1970
Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games
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Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount...
2017
Dancing with Pictures
Dancing with Pictures
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Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the...
2006
Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde
Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde
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A short by Alexander Kluge.