Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 2024
    Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)

    Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)

    Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)

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    An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

    Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn)
  • 2008
    Fifi

    Fifi

    Fifi

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    A reading by Alexander Kluge.

    Fifi
  • 2022
    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)

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    Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

    Sergej Eisenstein Stages Alexander Newski (1938) and Wagner‘s Walküre (1940)
  • 1993
    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

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    Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

    Plowshare of Evil
  • 2007
    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

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    The Magic of the Darkened Soul
  • 1994
    Solange die Notenblätter reichen

    Solange die Notenblätter reichen

    Solange die Notenblätter reichen

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    A reading by Alexander Kluge - First publication

    Solange die Notenblätter reichen
  • 2014
    Light Veins

    Light Veins

    Light Veins

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    This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and...

    Light Veins
  • 2008
    Man is the Soft Target

    Man is the Soft Target

    Man is the Soft Target

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    The German Army is today active in Africa, the Hindu Kush and in the Balkans. How do the troops respond to the new challenges? What does Clausewitz...

    Man is the Soft Target
  • 2006
    Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

    Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

    Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld

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    The woman in the battlefield.

    Die Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld
  • 1999
    He Who Hopes, Dies Singing

    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...

    He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
  • 2020
    Trump State Visit

    Trump State Visit

    Trump State Visit

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    Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

    Trump State Visit
  • 2005
    Women as Warriors

    Women as Warriors

    Women as Warriors

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    The British college tutor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly discusses the wartime deeds of fearless women. She also characterizes the male fantasies of...

    Women as Warriors
  • 2006
    Borderline Cases of Damage Control

    Borderline Cases of Damage Control

    Borderline Cases of Damage Control

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    Falling debris from space poses a danger to aircraft for which valid insurance policies have been taken out. Such cases as this are, among others,...

    Borderline Cases of Damage Control
  • 1990
    Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music

    Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music

    Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music

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    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),...

    Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
  • 2007
    The Magical World of Evolution

    The Magical World of Evolution

    The Magical World of Evolution

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    The DNA of animals and humans are among the most cutting-edge products of evolution. In living bodies, it occurs folded up and in condensed...

    The Magical World of Evolution
  • 2007
    The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts

    The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts

    The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts

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    65 mm is the technical format with the best qualifications for classic cinema. The images and the history of cinema shift (as if the film were a...

    The Gentle Makeup of Light New 65 mm minute shorts
  • 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

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    At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
  • 2012
    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

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    Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality
  • 1964
    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve

    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve

    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve

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    Portrait d'une mise à l'épreuve
  • 1993
    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

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    Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...

    Anti-Opera