Alexander Kluge Movies

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

Assuming that an observer living in the year 6000 would contemplate our period, for example, from 1607 to 2008 (approximately the era of our opera),...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Short philosophical film

Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in the...

One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller...

The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

A classical steel and rolling mill looks like an alchemical workshop. The project of industrialization went far beyond its original goals with regard...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

Not unlike reindeer there was something in these people - yet not what they wanted or intended - that was more intelligent than them. There is no...

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

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

When German soldiers threatened march into Kiev in the summer of 1941, the local motorized fire brigade was brought to safety. But when the expert...

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the...

Alexander Kluge's tribute to Soviet master Dziga Vertov, displaying a collage of stills from Vertov's work on the screen of a white round TV set to...

There is no objectivity beyond desire. That is the main clause of the ancient poet Ovid ("Metamorphoses"). The creator of the twentieth-century...

The metropolises in Mesopotamia (Uruk, Babylon), the city in Greek antiquity (Athens), the founding of Rome and the Celtic castle sites (oppida)...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin described an "angel of history." The heavy gale blowing in from paradise propels this angel into the future. The movie...