Alexander Kluge Movies

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...
1995
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
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The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...
2006
Das gab’s nur einmal
Das gab’s nur einmal
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A short by Alexander Kluge.
1996
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
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The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which...
2007
Das Phänomen der Oper
Das Phänomen der Oper
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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...
1998
An Experiment in Love
An Experiment in Love
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His prose text "An Attempt at Love", published in 1962, can be classified in the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials and deals with the attempt by the...
1991
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...
2007
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
Multiple Images for Five Projectors
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The film is both a representation of the installation elements (tiled mosaics of images projected on four walls and the ceiling of a gallery) and a...
1993
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
Rule a Great Country as You Would Fry Small Fish
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2007
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
The Magic of the Darkened Soul
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2014
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...
1990
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by
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In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip...
2008
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
Das Prinzip Stadt. Oskar Negt über die "Stadt in uns"
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The metropolises in Mesopotamia (Uruk, Babylon), the city in Greek antiquity (Athens), the founding of Rome and the Celtic castle sites (oppida)...
2008
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
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Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...
1995
The Voice of the Playwright
The Voice of the Playwright
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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...
1990
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
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"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...
2006
Storm Over Egypt
Storm Over Egypt
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A short by Alexander Kluge.
1998
Neonröhren des Himmels
Neonröhren des Himmels
01998HD
A short film by Alexander Kluge.
2002
All Feelings Believe in a Happy Ending
All Feelings Believe in a Happy Ending
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A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...