Alexander Kluge Movies

A short by Alexander Kluge.

In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader....

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

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...

At the time of the catastrophe, Oxana Pentak, an engineer in charge of adjusting automatic systems, was living on Lenin Street in Pripjet - closer to...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, which could be considered good without qualification, except a good will." Various egos are at work,...

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...

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

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

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

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

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...

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

In antiquity, a mariner or hunter could identify 6000 stars with his naked eye. Modern astrophysics now researches trillions of stars, galaxies and...

Thinking for oneself means: Seeking the touchstone of truth in one's own self. In his essay "What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?" from...