Alexander Kluge Movies

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...

Scenes from Nabucco (1842), I due foscari (1844), Macbeth (1847), Luisa Miller (1849), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Les vépres...

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

Did the primal ocean originally cover the entire planet? What happened to organic life during and after the great ice age, which is sometimes called...

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

Recordings of elephants in the wild and various graphs lain atop.

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

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus...

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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...

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 this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

People who do not have the patience or the opportunity to listen to all 86,000 operas that exist in the world need an opera guide. The opera guide is...

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...

Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.